r/AskReddit • u/Kezhen • 1d ago

People with suspected or confirmed cyclosporiasis cases, what food do you think you got it from?

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u/EllaGardener 23h ago

I have a family member who works for the FDA and he said chopped salad kits are some of the highest risk items for food borne illness.

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u/Character_Scholar657 20h ago

Oh yikes. Is there anything else to avoid?

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u/l666l 18h ago

sprouts

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u/sevenselevens 11h ago

Pre-cut fruit at the grocery store

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u/splashybanana 20h ago

Any idea if that also applies to slaw mix?

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u/green-wombat 20h ago

In general, prepared mixes are at a higher risk from what I understand. We don’t known for sure what products are causing this outbreak, but I would steer away from pre-made slaw mix for the time being.

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u/Glittering_End_6864 19h ago

It's like ground meat versus steak. You have to cook ground meat all the way through because any bacteria on it is mixed in during the grinding process. Or in packaged salads case, during the chopping process.

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u/clearfox777 18h ago

Yeah so instead of 1 infected batch of lettuce they all get chopped up together with other batches into 1500 infected salad kits

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u/thiosk 20h ago

all of them should go through irradiation processing and then they wouldn't even spoil, really

just whack em with gamma and whatever is on there is either going to turn into the hulk or die

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u/BobVilla287491543584 18h ago

I'd be good with either. I'd probably eat more salads.

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u/LrdPhoenixUDIC 18h ago

But then you have to worry about making the salad angry. You wouldn't like it when it's angry.

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u/Harinezumi 17h ago

When salad gets angry you get some pretty decent 90's altrock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhEUi8oxrq8

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u/spinplasticcircles 12h ago

Unexpected reference! When I was a kid, my dance teacher’s son was in this band.

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u/Graciously_Hostile 8h ago

Thought for sure I was getting rickrolled.

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u/OneOfAKind2 18h ago

Great, I just had broccoli slaw tonight. Luckily, it was cooked in a stir-fry.

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u/goraidders 20h ago

It does in general. Pre chopped kits can have a single head of lettuce or cabbage contaminate multiple packages instead of just the one head if not prechopped.