e. coli in prepackaged salads

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12536902/

Prior to this report, I had faintly heard that prepackaged salads were one of the worst cases of foods as far as e. coli contamination was concerned. But I always avoided them because it was more cost effective to make a salad myself and my tastes are so specific that I generally can't get what I want out of a prepackaged salad.

Anything that grows out of soil fertilised with animal s**t is in danger of being contaminated with e.coli. I used to work in a food laboratory and found that the food item most likely to be contaminated with E.coli was cress. For some reason, whenever the results came out that the cress was contaminated, it was riddled with it and would be classed as having an uncountable number of colonies as there were that many. The vast majority of the time though it was ok.

It kind of gives new meaning to the phrase "Eat sh-- and die" I've been told that. Didn't know I was being invited to have salad.