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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:39 AM
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Giant Foods Issues Potato Product Recall - Bacterial Contamination Fears Spur Recall Order
Source: WBAL via CNN

Giant Food and Stop & Shop have pulled 20 oz. bags of Simply Potatoes Shredded Hash Browns, Simply Potatoes Homestyle Slices and Simply Potatoes Red Potato Wedges.
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The products may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes, a bacteria that can cause flu-like symptoms, such as high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness and nausea. The bacteria can be very damaging for pregnant women or those with weakened immune systems.

Read more: http://www.wbaltv.com/cnn-news/18771991/detail.html
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:42 AM
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1. I prefer to process my own potatoes, thank you. And now I see why that has been
a wise decision over the decades.

I don't know why people think having every Tom, Dick, and Harry handle their food before they do is such a great idea. I guess "convenience" isn't much of a priority to me. Catching a deadly foodborne disease is pretty f---ing inconvenient, anyway.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:49 AM
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2. Yeah, those deadly foodborne diseases can pretty much ruin your entire day!
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luvspeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 12:09 PM
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3. One upside of the economy....
I can't afford to pay $3 for a 12 oz. bag of potatoes when I can get a potato for a buck a pound. That shit is expensive and tastes like crap.
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NBachers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 12:35 PM
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4. I've got a good solution
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Mr. Hyde Donating Member (314 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 12:58 PM
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5. I am seriously getting tired of hearing about contaminated foods.
Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 12:58 PM by Mr. Hyde
Can we start putting some people in prison for this shit? Pretty please Mr. President?
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 01:41 PM
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8. We used to have an organization that helped prevent this shit.
It was called the FDA, but like all effective govt organizations, the GOP relentlessly gutted it while they sold fairy-tales about "wasteful govt spending" and "intrusive govt regulations" to the public who were eventually going to suffer food poisoning.
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mamameow Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:21 PM
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11. gutted fda
you got that right, bush gutted the fda. these processing plants are checked once every few years now and no follow up is done when violations are found. listeria is not food poisoning like salmonella, it can kill. listeria is a killer. a good friend of mine bought luncheon meat in the lynchburg, va area, after eating it he developed severe flu like symptoms, before the doctors could diagnose, the listeria went to his brain, he went into coma and died. all this in a matter of days. the processor of the meat had not been follow up inspected from the first inspection when they found listeria, which was a few years earlier. read about listeria, as deadly as botulism.
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 01:08 PM
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6. Just buy real potatoes and enjoy boiled. They taste great with salt, nothing else is hardly needed.
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4_TN_TITANS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 01:20 PM
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7. Irish Steak Night at my house...
Buy your own potatos, chuck them in the oven (foil optional), when done load 'em up with bacon, cheese, sour cream, butter, etc.

If you bake them without foil, they even taste good plain. The skin will taste like potato chips. Potatos are the perfect depression food.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:23 PM
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12. I'd stretch great cheap food to include Sweet Potatoes and Collard
Cabbage is a cost effective base also, can't imaging going through the recession without cabbage soup.
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mamameow Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:48 PM
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13. missed the point
you all have missed the point. listeria should never be found in our food. does not matter that it is processed. how safe is your canned food? ever wonder? maybe the heat kills the contamination but who wants to eat anything with rat feces!!! the fda allows so many particles of contaminates, per case or some kind of measurement. i know this from a family member who worked as inspector of canned foods. so many pieces of rat feces, so many pieces of rodent hair, etc. get the picture? the fda's excuse was the expense, our expense to have uncontaminated food.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 08:03 PM
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16. All food is a natural product. It comes with some level of contaminates.
Even if you try to grow hydroponically in a sterile greenhouse you are going to get some level of unwanted "stuff". I'll take a few rodent hairs or insect parts over serious disease organisms, though.

No matter how good the inspection process is you ain't ever going to achieve 100%. Not saying it can't be improved, but it's still gonna happen.
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tooeyeten Donating Member (441 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 01:50 PM
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9. don't buy processed food
get back to the basics, and cut out the middleman.
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RavensChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:02 PM
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10. Exactly!
Do it old school and it'll taste better. Besides, I rarely eat potatoes anyway.

BTW, welcome to DU!
:hi:
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 02:48 PM
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14. "government is not the solution to our problems
Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 02:49 PM by guitar man
government is the problem!"

:sarcasm:

:grr:
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bkkyosemite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 03:30 PM
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15. Had some hashbrowns in refrig date March 25th but threw them away. My husband likes to use them for
breakfast. I just told him he has to shred his own from now on. This food thing is getting so ridiculous and even non processed foods (produce/nuts) has been contaminated. Buy local if you can. Can't wait until our local Farmers Market opens in March...geeze
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carlyhippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 08:37 AM
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17. I shred my own potatoes, but....wouldn't cooking the potatoes kill the bacteria?
Edited on Tue Feb-24-09 08:38 AM by carlyhippy
not that I want to be the participant in that experiment.
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schmuls Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 09:20 AM
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18. First peanuts, then ice cream and now potatoes! What is really
going on here?
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