Erin Alman-Updyke
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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We don't know.
Historically, Erin, you mentioned a lot of the common culprits, raspberries and other berries, things that you tend to maybe not wash that thoroughly or that are really difficult to completely wash.
Same thing with pre-washed bagged salad mixes and like fresh herbs, things like basil, cilantro, parsley, all of those have been implicated in the past.
From what I could tell, there's absolutely nothing that has been identified at this point.
We do not know.
Period.
Despite that, Taco Bell in Michigan is like not serving any fresh lettuce or onion or anything like that.
And I'm like, way to go, Taco Bell.
Be proactive.
But places like Michigan have put together some really great resources on how people can try and protect themselves.
Cooking your food does inactivate this parasite.
So anytime that fruits and vegetables can be cooked, they're going to be safer than if you're eating them raw.
Things that you're not going to cook or cannot cook for whatever reason,
Washing them in a solution with vinegar, like completely submerging them and swishing them around and soaking them, they say maybe helps a little bit more than just a quick rinse.
There's not like great data to support any of that because, again, none of the things that we typically use for disinfection, even like chlorine, are actually effective in killing this.
So all of that is the goal is washing it away, not killing or inactivating the parasite.
Right.
Even freezing doesn't completely kill it because we have seen outbreaks associated with frozen raspberries in the past.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I don't have a there's not a perfect answer here.
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