West Caldwell, NJ-based RLB Food Distributors, L.P., is initiating a multiple east coast states’ voluntarily recall of certain salad products that may contain spinach.
The products recalled by RLB are:
With fresh spinach linked to an unusually virulent outbreak that has killed one and sickened 130, the region has vaulted to new fame: the E. coli capital of America.
According to the LA Times, the whirlwind of health warnings and media reports over the past five days has tarnished the reputation of its growers and
Two year old Lily Lavender of Mobile, Alabama was diagnosed with E. coli and died due to kidney failure in a Birmingham hospital on Saturday.
Medical examiners are trying to determine how she contracted the disease. Speculation surrounds the Haven Woods Church Preschool where her mother worked and Lily spent most of her time.
The
Five more cases of E. coli in Nebraska have been linked to tainted spinach that’s killed one person and sickened more than 130 people across the country.
Three people in Nebraska have been hospitalized, according to the Lincoln Journal-Star. The afflicted range in age from 13 to 83.
About half of those with the food
The Laboratory Services Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has confirmed the first case of spinach-related E. coli that is of the same strain as the one associated with the national outbreak.
“As would be expected in a widespread outbreak that has already affected neighboring states, Colorado now has a case
Twenty-one states have been affected by the national spinach-related E. coli outbreak. Of the 131 cases nationwide, 66 people have been hospitalized with acute E. coli O157:H7 infections, including 20 with kidney failure, and one adult in Wisconsin died.
The breakdown of how many cases by state was provided by the CDC:
Caliornia 1
Connecticut
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.
A team of about a dozen investigators from the Food and Drug Administration and the state of California fanned out to farms in Monterey
Underberg and Kessler, a western New York law firm, has been hired to represent people who got sick after eating spinach contaminated with the E. coli bacteria. They are the same firm that represented more than 700 people who got sick last summer from the cryptosporidium parasite after a visit to the Sprayground at Seneca
A Seattle attorney and advocate for change in the produce industry says, though convenient, maybe bagged produce isn’t such a good idea after all, reports Ed Yeates. As the probe continues into E. coli contaminated spinach that’s now sickened people in 21 states, Bill Marler says it may be just one more example of a
Federal health officials were uncertain as to whether the bacterial strain that contaminated spinach and infected people coast to coast is unusually virulent, but more than half the reported cases have required hospitalization.
A key unanswered question is whether the strain of E. coli O157:H7 is particularly virulent, reports Newsday writer Delthia Ricks. At this