Outbreaks Reveal  Food Safety Net's Holes
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First it was spinach. Then tomatoes. Now possibly green onions.
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The number of people sickened since August by peanut butter tainted with salmonella has grown by more than 200, according to a new federal report. The outbreak, first reported in February, now includes 628 cases in 47 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
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The Agriculture Department said fresh ground beef products contaminated with multi-drug resistant Salmonella may have been ground and later sold at Safeway Inc stores in five states.
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From fast-food chains to Congress, moves are afoot to reduce animal suffering and ensure food safety
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Recalls of listeria-contaminated foods have dropped, but some are still at risk.
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On its way to supermarket shelves, bagged spinach passes from field to packing plant to store, with several opportunities along the journey for it to become contaminated with deadly E. coli bacteria.
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Two bags of spinach collected from E. coli patients in Wisconsin are linked to the national outbreak of the disease, state health officials said.
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WASHINGTON - Closing schools, restricting travel and rationing scarce medications may be the nation's first protections if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak because it will take months to brew a vaccine, say government preparations for the next pandemic.    Specialists say it's only a matter of time before the next one strikes, and concern is rising that the recurring bird flu in Asia could be the trigger since it is mutating in a way that lets it spread easily among people...
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A spate of recent deaths has stirred fears of a broader outbreak among people and raised the possibility of a human pandemic.
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An outbreak of E.coli bacteria that   may linked to bagged fresh spinach has killed one person and   sickened dozens of others in eight states, the U.S. Food and   Drug Administration said on Thursday.
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Government scientists struggled Thursday to pinpoint the source of the first U.S. salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter, the kid favorite packed into millions of lunchboxes every day.
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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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A series of faults at a government research facility are the likely causes of the recent foot and mouth outbreak, two reports are expected to say.
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A salmonella outbreak that has slowly grown to nearly 300 cases in 39 states since August may be linked to tainted peanut butter, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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An outbreak of salmonella food  poisoning linked to peanut butter has widened to 329 people in  41 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  reported on Thursday.
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Anne Grintjes can't even look at produce now without cringing. "I went through a grocery store the other day and I just flinched when I looked at all the greens," said Grintjes, whose 6-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter fell ill during a multi-state E. coli outbreak linked to tainted spinach. "It's hard not to, after watching your little boy struggling for his life in a hospital bed."
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