More E.coli spinach found in outbreak
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A second bag of spinach contaminated   with toxic E.coli bacteria has been found in Utah, and   regulators hope it will offer clues about an outbreak that has   now sickened 173 people and killed as many as three.
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By Douglas Fischer California farmers are expected today to approve tighter standards for growing and processing leafy greens such as spinach, hoping to prevent another E. coli outbreak like one last fall that sickened almost 200 people nationwide and devastated the industry.
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Leafy vegetables are the second leading source of E. coli infections in the United States, behind ground beef, but the government relies primarily on voluntary safety steps by farmers and packagers to prevent outbreaks.
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Consumers should avoid eating fresh bagged spinach after an outbreak of E. coli, officials announced.
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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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U.S. supermarkets cleared shelves of   bagged fresh spinach on Friday after the Food and Drug   Administration warned the produce could be the source of a   deadly E. coli outbreak across the nation.
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Federal health officials last night linked a deadly E. coli outbreak in bagged spinach products to a California farm company that sells organic produce in 74 percent of the country's grocery stores.
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Tighter regulation may be needed   after an outbreak of E. coli that has killed one person,   sickened 157 and forced all fresh spinach to be pulled from   store shelves, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration official   said on Thursday.
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As federal health officials investigate a deadly outbreak of bacteria-tainted bagged spinach that has killed one person and sickened dozens more, restaurants and grocery stores around the country are temporarily pulling spinach off menus and shelves.
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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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Federal food safety officials said fresh spinach is "as safe as it was before the outbreak," even though investigators have not determined the cause of a deadly E. coli outbreak.
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State health officials in Ohio are investigating whether a second death is the result of a deadly outbreak of E. coli linked to fresh spinach, as federal regulators expanded their search for the source of the contamination.
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A 2-year-old Idaho boy's death could be linked to the nationwide outbreak of spinach contaminated with E. coli bacteria, a state health official said. Kyle Allgood became sick September 15 after friends said his mother had blended spinach into a smoothie for him.
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A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that prompted a nationwide consumer warning on fresh spinach and sickened at least 192 people.
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Agents seeking the source of spinach contaminated with the E.coli bacteria search two plants in California.
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California officials say the E. coli bacterium recently discovered in U.S.-produced bags of spinach is found in nearly all Salinas Valley waterways.  The Salinas Valley is one of the world's most intensely farmed regions and a major supplier of lettuce and spinach to the United States.
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An E. coli outbreak that has sickened 59 people in the Northeast is prompting concern among West Coast farmers after officials announced that scallions suspected as carriers of the bacteria came from a Southern California farm.