Welcome to the third world!

This has nothing to do with the "third world" and everything to do with poor business practices! This is the same company that was found to be failing to clean their irrigation system, thereby spraying bacteria onto produce that was then packaged and not ever fully cleaned. I stopped purchasing bagged salads, finally, after the last recall two or three months ago, and obviously that was a good decision.

Watching shows like Top Chef have reminded me that it doesn't have to be expensive or time consuming to put together a simple salad or meal on a daily basis, and I actually like cooking! Romaine lettuce lasts for days and is easy to clean on one's own. Add in your other fresh ingredients, and you don't need all those so-called convenience foods that turn out not to be all that convenient at all. Especially when you end up having to throw them away!

Wow, people have become so lazy in America they can't even make their own salads now.

Lettuce, Carrots, Onions, Bell Peppers, Cucumbers, Cabbage and a knife...

How laboring it must be to make a salad!

Lisa Lynch

You got that right. Seems everything we eat is contaminated in one way or another. Makes me want to grow my own food.

People living in the city or big cities like LA don't have a yard to even grow a plant on. They are dependant on fast-food, junk-food and local supermarkets for their survival.

I'm heading to Iowa in January of next year. I'm leaving LA for good. Too much crime, illegals, corrupt politicians and police officers, taxes are too high, and people are eventually going to be charged for every toilet flush you make in places like CA and Arizona that have serious water drought and rationing going on.

At least I will have a back yard to grow stuff in, and not have to rely on produce from a supermarket, and Iowa gets plenty of rain I hear.

CHunky-Monkey

I bought one of these Salad mixes this weekend and I am not lazy. It was for a white water rafting and camping trip for work. I normally like making my own, but this was simple and did not require me bringing a cutting board and a knife.

So consider people buying a mix for something like this before you call everyone lazy!!!

Chunky - good luck getting away from illegals in Iowa (live there myself). Although, I guess it depends what area you go to - Marshalltown is "little Mexico" haha. But yes, Iowa is great for growing things - but your timing is awful - not smart to move in the middle of an Iowa winter.

remove all salad products from the market and create a 6 month moratorium on salad products production.

this "salad products problem" has the potential to affect or otherwise sicken with deadly potential more people than the gulf oil spill.

this company has never been inspected? I thought all "food related companies" had to be periodically inspected.

we can't let the food sector make their own rules and operate "wily nilly" without the safety of all Americans considered.

don't they have any rules?

don't these high paid executives at these companies have a responsibility to the American people.

who do they think they are. why do they think that they can operate outside the law. who is monitoring these people. don't these employees working in these salad products facilities have rules as regulations to follow.

these are probably the same people who are paying politicians to let these mexicans thru the border so that they can get cheap labor.

Even the stuff that isn't contaminated is bad for you with the FDA allowing Monsanto to put Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) in just about everything we eat.

The government needs to take a good, hard look at the studies done in Europe on GMO's (they won't since the FDA is owned by Monsanto). Europe won't eat our food due to these studies.

Our food supply is horrid for quality and nutrition and it's getting worse, quickly.

Be responsible for what you eat. Do the research on GMO's and please don't buy products that have these frankengenes in them. Your body will thank you for it and you will lose weight in the process.

I could type pages and pages of all the bad things Americans eat due to GMO's, Aspartame and the other chemicals in them. I will quit here.

Good health to everyone and get informed.

It went by the way side when share holder profit became the leading force for corporations.

Say. I wonder how much the CEO of this company makes, and if the recalls are costing me any bonuses?

When I was a young lass.............my mom bought a big bottle of Hunt's ketchup. I was pouring some on my sandwich when a ketchup soaked lubber came out of the bottle. My mom mailed the lubber in a plastic baggie (inside a large envelope) to the company with a letter stating we'd never use their ketchup again. Hunt's mailed a coupon back to my mom for a full size bottle of..........Heinz! Needless to say, I've never been able to buy Hunt's after that.

Yeah, what's a lubber?

It's a very large grasshopper.

Sorry, I live in Florida......lubbers are those huge, beautiful grasshoppers that love to eat up the potted plants. They start out looking like little black crickets with a yellow stripe on the side of their bodies. They turn into those huge grasshoppers that are predominantly yellow with a lot of orange and light brown on their wings. They really become a nuisance if you don't keep them under control.

Well, I've seen a WHOLE lot of legals in this country that are FAR from clean!

Monitor, please remove this racist post!

If you know for a fact that Fresh Express is hiring illegal immigrants, then report the company! The illegal's will be picked up by INS, and the company will be fined. Better yet, why not tell your Congressman to pass comprehensive imigration reform, and come up with viable laws to impose hefty fines or imprisonment for employers who hire and habitually hire illegal imigrants!

Simply. There is no illegal immigrant problem, if there are no employers that hire them!

By the way, Enma. This poster is not "racist" but is bigoted, and extremely ill informed!

It IS racist. Racism- The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others and discrimination or prejudice based on race. He is stereotyping illegals. I agree that they should not be in this country, but they are still human. Calling them dirty, makes you look dirty yourself. If you seem so concerned with your strong opinion, go investigate. Put in a job application while you're at it. How is it their fault that the company they work for has faulty machines? I don't believe this produce is hand washed at the factory. It's the people who supervise and own the company who are at fault for this. Are you going to blame bank tellers for the collapse of financial institutions? Inform yourself before you make RACIST comments.

Assuming a] that illegals (read: Latino illegals, of course) are unsanitary, b] that people who do agro work are all illegals, and c] that only these groups don't wash up is ignorant, knee-jerk racist bs.

I work in foodservice, and have seen no group that has the corner on being ignorant or lazy about washing their hands. (Half the time the towels and/or soap are out in the locker room; don't want to shake hands with the crew that are supposed to replace those but find it unnecessary!)

Make mine India Pale Ale or Stout. rofl (can't stand up) (*joke*)

I have been raising a garden for most of my adult life and off seasons you still have to buy from the stores if you want fresh. I remember that my mother would never allow tuna in our house because there was so many recalls in the early 60's. I never tasted tuna until I was an adult. This is not a new thing by far.

@pats: Amen to that. Ever read Sinclair's The Jungle? It helped bring the FDA into being. Of course, FDA and USDA have been in bed with big pharma and big food for years. *sigh*

I was thinking the same thing.... And gee, I wonder how many of you people that grow vegetables at home have pets. Or have neighbors who have pets. Or heck, stray animals wandering around. I'm sure NONE of them use your garden as their toilet.

At least the bacteria isn't put in a bag to fester and grow. We are in America "not" a 3rd world country as far as I know. This type of contaminated food should never have been on shelves to begin with. These packaged goods have been crap for years and still it is being allowed to be sold.

I've had the same experiences with this brand. Seems as soon as I open the bag, everything turns to slime. I quit buying this product a few years ago because of this.

Now I go to SeedSavers, Seeds of Change, etc, and we grow most of our own heirloom, un- (genetically) modified produce. We built a cold frame, and have fresh spinach as early as February, and as late as November. Yes, it's true that it all comes from dirt, and dirt is welll....dirty, but my hands planted it, cared for it and my hands harvested it, and prepared it. Nothing tastes as good as a ripe, sunwarmed Brandywine tomatoe plucked fresh from the vine.

Salad greens are an easy crop to grow if you have a wee bit of earth, as are tomatoes, and can easily be grown in containers for those with limited space. The best way to protest products that are inferior is to quit buying them.

Not feasable?Try to find a local farmers market, and buy from them. If you have a relative or a friend close by that has some dirt...offer to till and plant produce that they can share.

I find it disgusting that the people who have posted about glass, and other foreign objects found in their food have not gotten a response from this company. All the more reason to boycott this product.