MANSFIELD — A food safety alert has been issued by the Centers for Disease Control advising that U.S. consumers not eat any romaine lettuce.
In addition, retailers and restaurants are not to serve or sell any romaine lettuce until more is learned about a multi-state outbreak of E. coli.
Richland Public Health also posted this notice on its website.
According to the CDC, 32 people have been infected with the outbreak strain of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from 11 states.
Illnesses started on dates ranging from Oct. 8, 2018 to Oct. 31, 2018.
So far 13 people have been hospitalized, including one person who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure. No deaths have been reported.
For more details on this story follow, check out the CDC posting here.
