FBI searches spinach companies in Calif.
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The FBI searched two produce companies Wednesday for evidence of a crime in the nationwide E. coli outbreak that killed one person and sickened at least 191 others.
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California produce growers and processors worked to draw up new food-safety measures Thursday as government investigators trying to pinpoint the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak narrowed their search to three counties.
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Local supermarkets and grocers rushed yesterday to pull bagged spinach -- in some cases all spinach -- from shelves after federal health officials reported that one person died in Wisconsin and dozens more in 20 states were sickened by E. coli-tainted spinach.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The number of people sickened by an E. coli outbreak traced to tainted spinach rose to 109 on Sunday, as federal officials announced more brands recalling their products.
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Agents of the F.B.I. and the Office of Criminal Investigations in the F.D.A. carried out search warrants at Natural Selection Foods of San Juan Bautista and Growers Express of Salinas on Wednesday.
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It took exactly 14 days from the time state health officials in Wisconsin noticed five cases of E. coli O157:H7 in the same county until investigators arrived Wednesday at a field in California's Salinas Valley in search of the bacteria that ended up in bagged spinach and sickened 157 people in 23...
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Three people have now been confirmed killed in an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 food poisoning in spinach that originated in California, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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Federal officials narrowed their investigation and reminded consumers that spinach grown outside the three California counties implicated in the outbreak was safe to eat.
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California officials have discovered E. coli in cattle feces on pastures near farms being investigated as possible sources of spinach contaminated with the bacteria, which caused a nationwide outbreak of food poisoning, a state health officer said on Tuesday.
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Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista processing plant that may be the source of a nationwide outbreak.
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Government regulators never acted on calls for stepped-up inspections of leafy greens after last year's deadly E. coli spinach outbreak, leaving the safety of America's salads to a patchwork of largely unenforceable rules and the industry itself, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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Tampering is not suspected in an outbreak of E. coli linked to fresh spinach, federal health officials said Monday as they continue to probe the source of the contamination and warned consumers to continue to avoid eating fresh spinach products.
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MEXICALI, Mexico  - Like other California vegetable growers, Larry Cox oversees hundreds of Mexican farm workers picking green onions, asparagus and cauliflower in the fertile Colorado River valley.
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The Food and Drug Administration said Monday consumers should not eat any fresh spinach as investigators look for the source of E. coli bacteria that has sickened at least 109 people.
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The exact source probably will never be found for the E. coli outbreak linked to fresh spinach, a top food safety official said Tuesday, though federal inspectors kept checking California farms and factories.
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First it was spinach. Then tomatoes. Now possibly green onions.
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SAN FRANCISCO/OXNARD, California  - California's farming industry is girding for another potential black eye after a second outbreak this year of a potentially deadly E. coli strain linked to its crops.