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wash your vegetables and move on with your life.

• consumer451 3mo ago
  Unfortunately, that is really bad advice in this case. > Can washing remove Cyclospora? > No. According to the CDC, there is currently no method known to completely eliminate Cyclospora from contaminated fresh produce. [0] Thoroughly cooking your lettuce, and other vegetables, is the only way to reliably decontaminate in this case. If you want to eat fresh vegetables, the correct solution is separating sewage from irrigation water. [0] https://extension.psu.edu/ongoing-cyclospora-outbreak-highlights-importance-of-safe-produce-handling https://extension.psu.edu/ongoing-cyclospora-outbreak-highli...
  • TitaRusell 3mo ago
    Wait were does irrigation water come from in the US? They don't use tap water?
    • RobLach 3mo ago
      It’s typically sourced from natural/artificial surface bodies or pumped out of the ground.
      • voxic11 3mo ago
        Treated waste water is very commonly used as well. Just not normally for vegetables intended to be consumed fresh. Its mostly used to grow animal feed and non-food agricultural products.
    • throw1234567891 3mo ago
      Who uses tap water at scale for irrigation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation
  • euroderf 3mo ago
    > the correct solution is separating sewage from irrigation water. This sounds a bit too advanced for the nation that came up with the atom bomb and the first man on the moon and the transistor.