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
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
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
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
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