Last November around 2pm the Food and Drug Administration issued a recall for romaine lettuce. The leafy green had been identified as the culprit in an e coli outbreak that eventually sickened 62 people and hospitalized 25 nationwide, including two with kidney failure. This followed a recall from earlier in the year that left 172 sick and killed one. Millions of romaine heads ended up in dumpsters. The second recall banned the product during the height of the Thanksgiving season savaging the bottom lines of growers. { read more }