Now’s Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce

Romaine lettuce has a particularly bad reputation, and for good reason. Last year, an E. coli outbreak tied to—you guessed it—romaine sent 36 people to the hospital across 15 states. Eating romaine lettuce is especially a gamble right now. Read: The onion problemAmericans aren’t suddenly falling sick en masse from romaine lettuce, or anything else. Once a single infected head enters that machine, the pieces of the infected lettuce stick around, and it’s likely that subsequent heads will become infected.