There’s a bad batch of salad mix going around right now — over 350 people have gotten sick in 15 different states — but we, the public, have no idea which brand of salad mix is to blame. And there’s a law making sure we don’t find out.
145 people in Iowa have gotten sick, and the Iowa Department of Health knows exactly what is making folks ill: It’s a mixture of iceberg and romaine lettuce, carrots and red cabbage. But, according to ABC News:
“Because the vast majority of illnesses occurred in mid-June and the limited shelf life of fresh produce, IDPH [the Iowa Department of Health] and DIA [Department of Inspections and Appeals] determined the implicated salad mix was no longer in the Iowa food supply chain,” the department said. “Thus, there is no ongoing threat to the public health which would require the identification of a particular brand, store, or restaurant where the salad mixture was available. In addition, these sites could not have taken any action to prevent contamination of the mixture since it came pre-packaged and ready-to-eat.”
It’s not just Iowa! In Nebraska, 78 cases of food poisoning were tied to salad mix. And the Nebraska Department of Health also declined to name the brand of greens. Confidentiality laws or whatever.
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