As California spinach producers began harvesting their crops this week, legislators, consumers, and health officials discussed the possibility of another E. coli outbreak while spinach farmers and processors tried to assure the public that they were doing all they could to prevent another outbreak.
According to the Salinas Californian, the industry-designed, government-supervised plan will require
Dateline NBC reported on fresh food contamination, with emphasis on fresh spinach and lettuce grown in California, and whether irradiation is the answer to ensuring our fresh produce is safe.
"We can say all day long that we have the safest food system in the world," says Seattle attorney Bill Marler, who specializes in cases
The Oregonian recently profiled Bill Marler, a lawyer from Seattle who began representing victims of E. coli and other foodborne illness outbreaks in 1993 during the Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak. Since 1993, Marler has represented thousands of victims of foodborne illnesses, including salmonella, hepatitis A, and shigella.
Marler has
Lily-Rose, the daughter of Johnny Depp and his longtime partner Vanessa Paradis, is said to survive a battle with the deadly E. coli bacteria.
The seven-year-old girl was hospitalized in London earlier this month suffering a mystery illness. It was reported at that time that she had contracted blood poisoning after stepping on a
The California Department of Health Services and the FDA have released their final report on the spinach E. coli outbreak.
Authorities for the first time said they had isolated the deadly E. coli strain on Paicines Ranch in San Benito County from a field the ranch leased to Mission Organics, a spinach grower.
They found
The addition of $25 million of funding for spinach farmers who lost revenue during last year’s spinach recall is affecting those victims of the E.coli outbreak.
The losses to the farmers came when they were unable to sell their crops last fall after Americans got sick and died from e-coli bacteria in a batch of
Darryl Howard, the son of Betty Howard, a Richland, Washington, resident who died after contracting E. coli O157:H7 last September after eating California-grown spinach, will testify before the California Senate Agriculture Committee in Oakland, advocating for legislation to ensure fresh produce safety.
Mr. Howard and his two brothers will attend the hearing in support of
Microbiology researchers trying to uncover the secret of the success of the dangerous food poisoning bacterium E. coli O157 have discovered that it uses a unique iron-gathering trick that may help it to overcome our bodies’ defenses.
Part of the normal way our bodies fight off bacteria and other disease threats is by withdrawing supplies
Senator Dean Florez has criticized the California Department of Health Services after the department refused to release its report on September’s deadly E. coli outbreak.
That outbreak, which killed several people and sickened hundreds, was linked to a California spinach farm, but the Department of Health Services refused to acknowledge which farm is responsible, and
Fresh spinach that sparked a nationwide E. coli outbreak last fall was grown on a roughly 50-acre plot in San Benito County, health officials told state lawmakers.
Officials said at a legislative hearing Tuesday that investigators identified the grower who was farming that plot, which was in the second year of a three-year transition to