Another E.coli outbreak rattles California farmers
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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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RALEIGH, NC -- An outbreak of E. coli infections linked to last month&#39;s state fair may be larger than previously thought, with more than 100 additional cases under review, health officials said Saturday.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ As the number of victims climbed, health officials and farmers on Tuesday blamed each other for the years of failure to figure out how to stop E. coli outbreaks linked to Salinas Valley lettuce and, more recently, spinach.
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The recent scares over deadly bacteria in California produce might hurt farm programs aimed at restoring wildlife habitat and cutting water pollution.  Such environmental programs could be at odds with "clean- farming" techniques promoted by food processors.
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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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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 more than 100 people, the U.S. Food and   Drug Administration said on Wednesday.
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After a number of E. coli-related illnesses have recently been reported in the state, area health officials are asking Twin Counties residents to look for warning signs of the disease.
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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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A second case of mad cow disease may have turned up in the United States, Agriculture Department officials said Thursday.
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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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California produce growers and processors worked to draw up new food-safety measures as government investigators trying to pinpoint the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak narrowed their search to three counties.
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Consumer advocates and some lawmakers say that a Salinas Valley company's recall of spinach because of a salmonella scare shows that the federal government must do more to protect the nation's food supply, but industry officials call it proof that their voluntary regulations are working.
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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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The government is checking a possible new case of mad cow disease, officials said Thursday, rattling the nation's cattle industry, food processors and beef-oriented restaurant chains.
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U.S. health officials said on Monday they were not ready to declare an end to an E. coli outbreak, linked to Taco Bell, that sickened at least 64 people, saying they could not confirm that green onions were the source of the bacteria.
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The US government is investigating a possible new case of mad cow disease, officials said on Thursday, rattling the US cattle industry, food processors and beef-oriented restaurant chains.
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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.