After Last Year's E. Coli Outbreak, Produce Testing Diverged at Border
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Early last month, Dole Food sent thousands of pounds of lettuce, picked mostly in California, through its processing plant in Springfield, Ohio, where a company inspector looked for defects before sending it along a conveyer belt. There it was washed three times, dried and deposited into half-pound...
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Federal health officials await test results from California farms and packing plants that could allow them to pinpoint the source of an E. coli outbreak that's sickened spinach eaters across the country.
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California's  farming industry is girding for another potential black eye  after a second outbreak this year of a potentially deadly E.  coli strain linked to its crops.
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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 California produce company at the center of the recent E. coli outbreak announced steps Thursday to improve its food safety inspections.
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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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SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., Dec. 4 -- An E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 22 people, two of them seriously, was linked by health investigators Monday to three Taco Bell restaurants in New Jersey.
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Some farmers suggest that the FDA's warning stemming from an E. coli outbreak is too broad.
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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 191 others.
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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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Renewed confusion surrounding the source of an E.coli outbreak linked to Taco Bell will make it harder for the Mexican-style restaurant chain to reassure customers that its food is safe and could prolong a damaging sales slowdown.
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SAN FRANCISCO/OXNARD, California  - California's farming industry is girding for another potential black eye after a second outbreak this year of a potentially deadly E. coli strain linked to its crops.
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BOISE, Idaho  - A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an   86-year-old woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E.   coli infections raised to three the number of deaths from an   outbreak traced to fresh spinach, state health officials said   on Friday.
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The latest food-contamination case raises the stakes for growers and public officials.
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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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Traced to Taco Bell restaurants, it was the nationÂs most serious outbreak of E. coli toxins since contaminated spinach killed three in September.
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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.