Is safe to eat spinach served at restaurants?
That’s a tough question to answer. The FDA has recommended to avoid eating spinach at restaurants, but only because of a handful of businesses who used bagged spinach. As the coverage of the spinach outbreak reaches into the panic phase, good businessfolk are unlikely to place spinach on their menus, not because the spinach is bad, but because the spinach won’t move. Couldn’t I just cook any bagged spinach? Sure, but bacterial transfer can occur with a simple touch. Picking up tainted spinach with your bare hands can put you at risk. Likewise placing tainted spinach on counter tops, sinks, bowls, etc., will put you at risk. What are the odds of me getting E. Coli if I’ve had spinach? Very, very low. There have been 109 of E.Coli cases reported in the past week or so. Divide that number into the amount of people who likely have eaten bagged spinach in the last week or so, and you’ll have your odds of getting E. Coli. Even if you triple or quadruple the amount of cases, you’ll still have
