2 Produce-Packing Plants Searched in Spinach Probe
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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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A COCKTAIL of chemicals, some at levels above legal limits, has been found in samples of fresh fruit and other foods.   Some apples, grapes, aubergines and yams carried pesticide traces above the legal threshold, according to the official Pesticides Residues Directorate.
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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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Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista processing plant that may be the source of a nationwide outbreak.
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DWIGHT, Illinois  - Illinois farmer Rick Parker was busy spraying his crops with pesticide this week but weeds were not his biggest worry as he surveyed his fields.
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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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Like fine wine and cheese, spinach could be labeled with a place of origin to reassure shoppers jittery about an E. coli outbreak linked to leafy greens grown in California.
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A team of researchers from Cornell University, in a study to be summarized in the Nov. 3 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, found pungent onion varieties like New York Bold, Western Yellow
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Tough food safety precautions and produce-tracking systems implemented last year after a fatal E. coli outbreak were put to the test when spinach from a produce company came up positive for salmonella bacteria, prompting a new recall.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 4--BELLINGHAM -- Karin Colgrove is hankering for greens, and she hopes her recent move didn't cause her to miss her first weekly vegetable delivery of the summer.
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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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BOISE, Idaho  - A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an   elderly woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E. coli   infections raised to three the number of deaths related to a   nationwide health scare around fresh spinach, state health   officials said on Friday.
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As federal health officials investigate a deadly outbreak of bacteria-tainted bagged spinach that has killed one person and sickened dozens more, restaurants and grocery stores around the country are temporarily pulling spinach off menus and shelves.
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California produce growers and processors worked to draw up new food-safety measures Thursday as government investigators trying to pinpoint the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak narrowed their search to three counties.
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Investigators probing the source of a listeria outbreak said Thursday the strain that killed three people was found at a dairy processing plant in central Massachusetts
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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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CLOVIS, Calif. -- Bins of Granny Smith apples towered over two conveyor belts at P-R Farms' packing plant. But only one belt moved. The farm, like others nationwide, does not have enough workers to process its fruit.