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According to Crista Martin, the assistant director for marketing for Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), Harvard’s residential dining halls will be completely spinach-free for now, a result of the recent E. coli outbreak nationwide. As of Sunday, 109 people had fallen ill, and one woman died as a result of the E. coli bacterium that federal officials have traced back to tainted fresh spinach...
Shoppers changed their buying habits Saturday as spinach was pulled from grocery store shelves because of the outbreak of E. coli bacteria that had killed one person and sickened more than 100 others...
...chlorinated water. The goal is to reduce costs, because you don't have to take the waste from the factory and bring it back to the field. The problem is, they are working out in the dirt. There are so many different ways that E. coli can get into the food this...
...Produce Marketing Association (PMA), which represents the fruit and vegetable growers industry, notes that processing for ready-to-eat products "is happening in a enclosed facility, not in the field. No one is putting produce in bags out there." Because produce can become a source of E. coli 0157 infection only by being contaminated from another source, PMA advocates good agricultural practices, which includes keeping tools and equipment used to cut produce clean and isolated from potential sources of E. coli, as well as regulating how far away portable toilets provided for workers need to be placed from growing produce...
...Control (CDC) in Atlanta is better equipped than ever to investigate clusters of disease cases and trace their cause. In this outbreak, the first call came into the CDC on Wednesday afternoon. An epidemiologist at the state health department in Wisconsin had been investigating almost 20 reports of E. coli poisoning in a matter of days, and after some initial labwork and extensive interviews with the victims, all of whom had reported bloody diarrhea, the scientists there suspected that bagged spinach might be the culprit, and called Atlanta. Shortly after, Dr. Patricia Griffin, chief of enteric diseases at CDC, says...