He said experts tracing patients’ food histories found most patients who became sick had eaten romaine lettuce in the days leading up to their illness. The agency is recommending people in those provinces not eat romaine lettuce and throw out any they still have in their fridges. It is stopping short of recalling romaine lettuce or telling retailers to pull it from their shelves. In that outbreak, 42 cases of E. coli were reported in Canada in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. The cause of contamination was never identified in that outbreak although romaine lettuce was eaten by many patients before they got sick.

Source: National Post November 23, 2018 20:15 UTC