Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington consumers were impacted by the recent recall of Foxy brand lettuce after the discovery of E. coli in irrigation water.
As of October 10, the company had recovered nearly all of the recalled lettuce, but a small portion of the product was thought to be consumed or
In the wake of the recent E. coli outbreak traced to contaminated spinach, consumers have been turning to organic produce in efforts to try to protect themselves from the dangers of pathogenic bacteria that may be present on produce.
WCCO 4 News in Minneapolis says that it is important to remember that organic does not
The Produce Marketing Association is making efforts to increase consumer confidence in what was previously a popular supermarket purchase – bagged spinach. The industry group is encouraging consumers to trust spinach growers and distributors to supply E. coli-free spinach to restaurants and grocery stores across the country.
In a letter, the Produce Marketing Association
Frank Pecarich, a retired soil scientist from Oakland, California, offered his opinion on Monterey County’s policies regarding irrigation water for crops in the Salinas Valley in an article for the California Progress Report.
In the article he stated, "State regulators do not require growers to test irrigation water for contaminants. To us the cause seems
The Minnesota Department of Health Public Health Laboratory have received three isolates of E. coli O157:H7 among members of Salem Lutheran Church in Longville, Minnesota. The church had recently held a funeral luncheon and their monthly summer potluck smorgasbord. Subsequently, multiple individuals reportedly became ill with cramps and bloody diarrhea.
MDA was informed that ground
The Food Safety Network has a new Food Safety Infosheet titled, "E. coli found in cattle feces in spinach probe," and is available at the FS Net Web site.
Thirteen product samples have been confirmed to contain the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 that is responsible for a nationwide outbreak that has resulted in 199 confirmed illnesses and 31 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome.
There are now a total of 13 confirmed product samples that contain the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak strain.
As of Friday, three people had died from eating tainted spinach and 199 in 26 states were sickened during the outbreak. Officials still have not discovered how the spinach packaged by Natural Selection came to be contaminated, and they may never know, but they are confident the outbreak has been contained.
Caroline and David Zientek
Rachel Konrad of The Associated Press reports that Salinas-based Nunes Company Inc. has initiated a voluntary recall of green leaf lettuce purchased last week under the Foxy brand name. Foxy is one of the nation’s largest suppliers of lettuce, celery, broccoli, vegetable platters and stir-fry mixes.
Executives ordered the recall after learning that water used
State health officials said on Friday that one of the three people in the country who died from contaminated spinach is from Sarpy County, Nebraska.
Ruby Trautz, 81, of Bellevue got sick after eating spinach in late August. She died a short time later. Her daughter Polly and her husband Ken told KETV Channel 7