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Posted on 09/14/2006 5:58:27 PM PDT by Post-Neolithic
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An outbreak of E. coli in eight states has left at least one person dead and 50 others sick, federal health officials said Thursday in warning consumers not to eat bagged fresh spinach.
The death occurred in Wisconsin, where 20 others were also sickened, said Dr. David Acheson of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. The outbreak has sickened others -- eight of them seriously -- in Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah.
FDA officials do not know the source of the outbreak other than it appears to be linked to bagged spinach. "We're advising people not to eat it," Acheson said.
The outbreak has affected a mix of ages, but most of the cases have involved women, Acheson said. [snip..]
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Popeye's gonna be pissed...
I gotta go...
Where was the spinach grown?
Yet another reason to let the cows eat the spinach, then we eat the cows.
Uuff!
'scuse me!
Other than E Coli 157 are there other "e. coli" that cause disease? Can't see how spinach would get infected otherwise...maybe cow dung?
sw
Uh...no....people harvest it.....
No idea, think most of the contamination of fruits, veggies come from south of the border. Something about the water that they grow the stuff in. Didn't Chi, Chi's have a big epidemic of hepititis linked to the same sort of thing last year?
I know it was bad enough that they went bankrupt.
There are supposed to be potra-potties.....but....
Take your pick for produce today......Columbia, Peru, Bolivia, South Africa, Australia, Dwarf Planet Pluto.......
Next year I'm growing a victory garden so I know what's on the veggies and who's on the veggies.
Leni
Yikes! I luv fresh spinach, added to a nice oil and vinegar salad...
truble with buying spinach is it seems no matter what you do with it, after a day in the fridge, it turns to mush...
Ping, to show my Keeper...
It's those spinach salads that will kill you!
sw
"Think "no porta potties" in the spinach fields.."
That makes a lot of sense. I was also thinking it had do something with/along the washing/packing process. These produce outbreaks all seem to come with these new packaged veggies (I could be wrong). More handling, special attention to washing.
Thanks Mexico /sarc
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