California produce growers and processors hope to salvage what’s left of the spinach season and stop millions of dollars in losses by drafting new food-safety measures.
The Associated Press reports that federal officials have required the industry to adopt the measures before they will lift a week-old consumer warning on fresh spinach.
It’s likely to be at least another week before federal and state investigators conclude their search of Salinas Valley farms, looking for the source of the nationwide E. coli outbreak in spinach.
The Monterey County Herald reports that regulators told the industry that the investigation — along with guidelines the industry is now working on
When they sounded the alarm on E. coli-contaminated spinach last week, using the media to put the word out, the FDA did apparently did not properly include the ethnic press.
Viji Sundaram, health editor of New California Media, inquired to the FDA why these outlets were not used to report the outbreak and received
Even as government health experts urge Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables, federal rules for protecting consumers from such hazards as the current E. coli outbreak from contaminated spinach are weaker than for meat and poultry.
And as food-borne illnesses attributed to produce appear to be rising, budget squeezes have federal regulators retreating rather
Organic milk is being recalling after three children tested positive for the E. coli bacteria. Raw milk sold by organic pastures of Fresno is being recalled by the state of California. Three children who drank the un-pasteurized milk have tested positive for E. coli.
WVVA TV news reports while none of the samples of
The spinach-packaging company in the cross hairs of an investigation into a nationwide E. coli outbreak has struggled to manage its wastewater and is in violation of a state water disposal permit, according to public records and state officials.
The Sacramento Bee reports that there is no indication these problems at Natural Selection Foods contributed
Organic Pastures of Fresno County is the subject of a statewide recall and quarantine order announced by California State Veterinarian Dr. Richard Breitmeyer and reported on KSEE-TV NBC 24 Fresno.
The recall states that all Organic Pastures whole and skim raw milk is to be pulled from retail shelves immediately. Consumers are being strongly urged
The Washington Post says Drew and Myra Goodman, the husband-and-wife produce team whose business is at the center of the E. coli spinach crisis in California’s Salinas Valley, did not plan on becoming farmers.
They grew up in Manhattan. Drew’s father was an art dealer. Myra’s father was a jewelry manufacturer. They went to college
It took exactly 14 days, says The Washington Post, from the time state health officials in Wisconsin noticed five cases of E. coli O157:H7 in the same county until investigators arrived Wednesday at a field in California’s Salinas Valley in search of the bacteria that ended up in bagged spinach and sickened 157 people in
KUTV of Salt Lake City is reporting that an Idaho toddler has died in a Utah hospital from a kidney disease associated with E. coli infection. The infection may be linked to the national outbreak traced to contaminated packaged spinach, health officials said.
Kyle Algood, 2, of Chubbuck, Idaho, died Wednesday at Primary Children’s Hospital