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Baby Carrots Contaminated

BABY CARROTS COULD BE CONTAMINATED: CFIA

People in Canada are being warned not to eat a brand of baby carrots from Mexico because the product may be contaminated with shigella bacteria.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/08/1...ots-recall.html

Contaminated Carrots Baby

That's really frightening, especially as the illness involves nausea, diarrhoea and fever and can last between 4-14 days!
The frail or children with this, I suspect could take a long time to get back to normal after your body having suffered such a nasty disease.
The size of the carrot being a baby carrot, I would imagine the main consumers would be children eating them as they are a handy size, and don't take as long to cook.
You really don't expect nasty illnesses to occur when you encourage your kids to eat up their veg!