E. Coli Probe Focuses on 9 Calif. Farms
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Investigators searched nine California farms for evidence of spinach-borne E. coli yesterday, going into the fields for the first time, as the number of confirmed illnesses rose by 17 to  131.
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The investigation into an outbreak of E. coli that killed one person and sickened more than 140 others both broadened and shrank on Wednesday.
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Officials continued to investigate an outbreak of E. coli bacteria that has so far claimed one life and sickened more than 50 people in 10 states.
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MADISON, Wis. -- Two bags of spinach collected from E. coli patients in Wisconsin are linked to the national outbreak of the disease, state health officials said.
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Investigators are focusing on three   counties in central California in the search for the source of   an E. coli outbreak linked to fresh spinach that has spread to   23 states and sickened more than 100 people, the U.S. Food and   Drug Administration said on Wednesday.
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A sixth suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease is being investigated on a farm in Surrey.
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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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A California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others. Supermarkets across the country pulled spinach from shelves, and consumers tossed out the leafy green.
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Thirteen cases of infection with E. coli bacteria may be linked to a multistate beef recall, the beef producer and Arizona state health officials told CNN Thursday.
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RALEIGH, NC -- State health officials announced Monday that they have identified the that they have collected enough information from the ongoing E. Coli disease investigation to identify the state fair as the source of the outbreak.
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Tough food safety precautions and produce-tracking systems implemented last year after a fatal E. coli outbreak were put to the test when spinach from a produce company came up positive for salmonella bacteria, prompting a new recall.
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Dole Food Company, a top U.S. food and fruit producer, has stepped up testing and tracking of produce to prevent outbreaks of E.coli like the one that sickened hundreds last fall, the firm said on Thursday.
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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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The F.D.A. is suggesting that the fresh-cut produce industry constantly monitor and control vulnerable places in the production cycle where the bacteria are likely to form.
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E. coli is to blame for the outbreak of food-borne illness among dozens of inmates at a county jail, sheriff's officials said.
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The outbreak of E. coli linked to fresh spinach was blamed for another five cases of illness Saturday, raising the number of people sickened to 171, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
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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 192 others.