E. Coli Fears Inspire a Call for Oversight
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Three major produce industry groups have called for government regulation.
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New Jersey health officials addressing an E.coli outbreak on Wednesday asked Taco Bell restaurants in the state to throw out all their food and better train workers in hygiene and food handling.
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Agents with the FBI and the Food and Drug Administration searched two produce-packing plants in California's Salinas Valley yesterday morning in connection with last month's outbreak of E. coli in fresh spinach that so far has sickened 193 people and killed at least one.
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An assembly committee has called for an urgent independent inquiry into hospital-acquired infections.
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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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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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FOOD poisoning, it seems, has become a moving target for health officials.   For years, health experts rightly cautioned the American public about the dangers of E. coli sickness caused by raw or undercooked beef. And the handling of beef for human consumption requires vigilance.
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Warnings could be introduced after analysis confirms high levels of bacteria and viruses.
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The first major changes to food inspection in a decade will increase federal scrutiny of meat and poultry plants where the danger from E. coli and other germs is high or where past visits have found unsafe practices.
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Congress is alarmed at the FDA's inability to safeguard food imports. But should we really worry about E.Coli as much as al-Qaeda?
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U.S. food safety regulators said on   Thursday they were still mystified by an outbreak of E. coli   that has killed one person, sickened 157 and forced all fresh   spinach to be pulled from store shelves.
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Federal health officials told California farmers to improve produce safety in a pointed warning letter last November, nearly a year before the multistate E. coli outbreak linked to spinach.
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In setting limits on chemicals in food and water, the Environmental Protection Agency may rely on industry tests that expose people to poisons and raise ethical questions.
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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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An outbreak of E. coli bacteria has sickened at least 11 people in New Jersey over the past two weeks, officials said.
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Investigators are to report on the causes of an E.coli outbreak which led to kidney failure in children at a nursery.
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An outbreak of E. coli bacteria has sickened at least 15 people, two seriously, in central New Jersey during the past two weeks, officials said Sunday.