Tainted spinach sickens 166 in 25 states
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Spinach grown outside California's Salinas Valley got the all-clear from federal health officials Friday, but it could be days before the leafy green returns to store shelves.
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More than 250 people have reported  becoming sick after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant in  Indianapolis, Indiana, a county health official said on Friday,  a day after an outbreak of E.coli at Taco Bell restaurants was  declared over.
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A girl fell into a 40-day coma after eating a bad Jack in the Box hamburger. Fifteen years later, she is still suffering ill effects. That doesn't bode well for a toddler who spent six weeks in the hospital in 2006 after eating E. coli-tainted spinach from California.
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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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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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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 recall, by a California produce company, comes nearly a year after an outbreak of another pathogen, E. coli, in fresh spinach killed 3 people and sickened 200.
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Two more cases of illness were blamed Sunday on the outbreak of E. coli linked to fresh spinach, raising the number of people sickened to 173, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
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The Food and Drug Administration yesterday warned American consumers not to eat commercially bagged fresh spinach because it may be the source of a worsening outbreak of foodborne illness that so far has caused one death.
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More bags of spinach tainted with   toxic E. coli bacteria have been found and could help   investigators track down an outbreak that may have killed three   people, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   said on Tuesday.
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Anne Grintjes can't even look at produce now without cringing. "I went through a grocery store the other day and I just flinched when I looked at all the greens," said Grintjes, whose 6-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter fell ill during a multi-state E. coli outbreak linked to tainted spinach. "It's hard not to, after watching your little boy struggling for his life in a hospital bed."
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Idaho health officials confirmed  on Thursday a toddler who died last month from kidney failure  had been infected by the E. coli strain responsible for a  nationwide wave of food poisoning linked to tainted spinach.
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Federal health officials are investigating whether a more potent strain of E. coli is behind an outbreak linked to fresh spinach that has sickened at least 131 people, half of whom have been hospitalized.
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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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Natural Selection Foods LLC, the San Juan Bautista, Calif., processor of fresh produce that recalled bagged fresh spinach two weeks ago, said yesterday that it has begun testing spinach in the field for the E. coli bacteria.
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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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If the recent outbreak of the E. coli infection traced to fresh spinach has left you worried about what's on your plate, breathe a little easier: Despite the recent high-profile problem, food-borne illness has been steadily declining in the United States.