Officials find E. coli concerns in inspections
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U.S. officials searching for the   source of an E. coli outbreak that may have killed three people   said on Friday they had found "situations of concern" at farms   and food processing plants in California but cleared spinach   grown elsewhere in the country.
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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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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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Investigators are trying to determine the source of an outbreak of gastrointestinal infections on an island in Ohio. More than 1,000 visitors to South Bass Island in Lake Erie
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Officials are investigating Taco Bell restaurants as the possible source of the infections.
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State and federal health authorities  were trying on Wednesday to determine the cause of an outbreak  that has sickened about 1,000 people who visited an Ohio island  getaway in Lake Erie.
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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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U.S. health officials on Monday said they are not ready to declare the Taco Bell E.coli outbreak over, citing a positive test of the bacteria among a batch of white onions at one of the restaurant's location in New York.
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RALEIGH, NC -- North Carolina public health officials said Friday they are investigating 39 more cases of possible E. coli infection and have ruled out four confirmed cases as part of an outbreak linked to the North Carolina State Fair.
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U.S. food safety inspectors said Tuesday they will expand tests and recall infected meat more rapidly to combat E. coli contamination of meat products after the largest American manufacturer of hamburger patties went out of business this month.
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Tests by regulators of two   California food-processing plants linked to an outbreak of E.   coli in bagged spinach found no contamination by the toxic   bacteria, a top officer with their operator said on Thursday.
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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 146 people, the U.S. Food and Drug   Administration said on Wednesday.
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RALEIGH, NC - Five people who attended last month&#39;s state fair had E. coli infections that stem from the same strain of bacteria, health investigators confirmed.
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Nearly three dozen people fell ill, including 14 who were hospitalized, with symptoms consistent with infection by the E. coli bacteria after eating at a Taco John's restaurant, a local health department said. Test results were expected Monday.
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The Department of Agriculture said it will begin testing more domestic and imported meat used to make ground beef for E. coli contamination, following an increase in recalls for the potentially deadly bacteria.
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The butcher at the centre of an E.coli outbreak claims his firm regularly passed environmental inspections.
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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.