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, says health officials.
Federal health officials told The Associated Press that more explicit labeling was just one proposal under consideration for allowing fresh spinach back
The warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration says that bagged spinach is likely the cause of an outbreak of E. coli infections, strikes fear in the hearts of many parents.
Spinach is the poster child of healthy eating — replete with vitamins, minerals, possibly healthful antioxidants
West Virginia Media reports that the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department announced today that an Ohio County resident is said to have E. coli.
Surrounding states have reported cases of the disease, but the Ohio County report is the first in West Virginia. Tests are being conducted in Virginia to determine whether the disease is
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.
Western Growers, an industry group representing about 3,000 fruit and vegetable farmers in California and other states tells The Associated Press they plan
Governor Napolitano says it’d be wrong for Arizona to try to gain an agricultural advantage over California because of the nationwide E. coli outbreak.
Health authorities are hunting the source of the outbreak in Arizona and numerous other states but are zeroing in on California’s Salinas Valley. California is the source of three-quarters of the
The expanding E. coli spinach outbreak, which now has sickened 146 victims in 23 states, is prompting calls for an overhaul of how food inspection is done in the United States, with a focus on getting rid of a patchwork approach that leads to loopholes and leaves the industry mostly policing itself.
Mary Anne Ostrum
The nationwide E. coli outbreak from bagged spinach could seriously dampen the popularity of prewashed, packaged salads with time-pressed and diet-conscious Americans, food safety and marketing experts say.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s announcement Wednesday that the bug that sickened hundreds of people matched a strain found in an opened bag of Dole spinach.
Late last week, the spinach industry came to a halt as E. coli bacteria has been found in pre-packaged bags of fresh — not canned — spinach across the country.
Arizona’s KVOA News 4 reported that The Centers for Disease Control is warning everyone to toss out any bags of fresh spinach, no matter what
The Harford County Health Department is awaiting the results of a culture taken from a 5-year-old boy who may have contracted the strain of E. coli that has been linked to contamination of flat-leaf spinach.
According to Matthew Plum of TheExaminer.com in Baltimore the case was first reported to the health department last week; about
Monterey County officials say legislation that has been proposed to ban the use of water reclaimed from sewage for irrigating vegetable fields that could impact the state’s agricultural industry and its water supply.
Monterey County officials say legislation that has been proposed to ban the use of water reclaimed from sewage for irrigating vegetable fields