I would bet my life savings that Taco Bell gets their lettuce from mexico, where the untreated sewage flows freely. If even the tap water will make you sick, then what quality of water do you think they are spraying on their crops?

Public restaurants and fast food chains are "not using organic type products" which are the safest around. They buy, purchase and use products which are all tainted to some degree, because they are sprayed with various pesticides, full of additives which are chemical products that produce all types of reactions to our bodies, but they don't care at all . Money is the bottom line not health and safety. They could raise the pricing just a little and use healthy type foods and additives rather than chemicsl such as MSG, Sulfates, even fertilizer products are put in food for preserving them. This nation is sick from the food it eats and which is sold by money hungry people who love money more than any thing else in their life!

John you need to get some facts straight and some education, 90% of their lettuce is from california the other part is from the other states.

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Annoying, isn't it, that we find out about this AFTER the outbreak; that the CDC says the event is past, but that the CDC also says they don't know where the outbreak originated. Exactly how can you not know what caused it AND know that it is finished? Just a little more information here would make this a whole lot easier to swallow! (Excuse the pun, please.)

John, to say Taco Bell gets their lettuce from Mexico suggests the spinach related e coli outbreak of 2007, from the Salinas Valley in California, did not happen. And the lettuce linked Taco Bell outbreak the same year? What was the source of the irrigation water used for that product? Do you know? The CDC does. Please try and realize that pointing fingers at imports is not healthy or productive. The U.S. grows enough contaminated produce to infect every American citizen.
Lamar, this has nothing to do with organic and pesticides etc. This is all about contamination with fecal material from animals. Go take your organic mantra to another stage. Let's stick with the source of enteric pathogens on this issue.

Seriously Marler Clark, you are nothing more than ambulance chasers. You act so holier than thou even though you know that the US has the safest food supply in the world. I'm a food scientist and my specialty is food safety. I've spoken on food safety topics at worldwide conferences and written for food safety trade magazines. Your constant assault on the treasuries of reputable companies is repugnant. You disguise yourselves as advocates for the "little guy", but you're only out for huge litigation wins.

Lamar, there is NOTHING special about organic products, in fact they may be less safe in some circumstances than regular food.

Hector Chaparro, were you born yesterday, by chance. Sounds like it. You get educated!