President Trump's Thanksgiving meal included Caesar salad amid romaine E. coli outbreak

Ashley May | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption Massive E. coli warning on two popular foods An E. coli outbreak has led to the CDC to warn Americans to avoid romaine lettuce and JBS USA to recall close to 100,000 pounds of ground beef.

President Donald Trump was saved from the looming dangers of romaine lettuce on Thanksgiving Day.

Even though the president's Thanksgiving menu with family included a full salad bar with Caesar, wedge and Greek salads, the White House told USA TODAY that no romaine lettuce was served.

This followed a food safety alert issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention two days before Thanksgiving, telling people to trash any romaine lettuce they've bought and avoid eating it until they know more about romaine linked to more than 30 cases of E. coli poisoning.

Caesar salad is typically made with romaine lettuce. It's unclear what lettuce was used as a substitute at Trump's family dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Friday morning that the contaminated lettuce likely originated in California.

"New romaine from different growing regions, including Florida and Arizona, will soon be harvested," he wrote on Twitter. "We’re working with growers and distributors on labeling produce for location and harvest date and possibly other ways of informing consumers that the product is 'post-purge'"

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