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...Signs on salad bars from Pfoho to Mather explaining Harvard’s curious lack of roughage are putting a damper on the otherwise exquisite, or at least generally non-lethal, Harvard College dining experience. An E. coli outbreak traced to California bagged spinach has caused one known death, is suspected of causing two others, and has made people sick from New Mexico to Maine. No E. coli cases have been reported in Massachusetts. But when dealing with the possibility of a gastrointestinal illness marked by such symptoms as bloody diarrhea, cramping, and, um, death, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS...
...Brands to avoid are Natural Selection Foods (San Juan Bautista, Cal.), River Ranch (Salinas, Cal.) and RLB Food Distributors (West Caldwell, N.J.), all of which have recalled their bagged spinach and spinach-containing salad mixes...
...Investigators still don't know how the greens became contaminated with E. coli 0157, but they have descended on the Salinas Valley, which local farmers proudly call the Salad Bowl to the World. Because E. coli normally originates from the feces of people or animals, a team from the FDA is inspecting sanitation procedures used both in the fields and in processing plants, and looking into water-quality logs and even weather patterns, to determine if flooding or poor drainage caused contaminated runoff to bring the bacteria into contact with produce...
...stuck to the food for as long as 140 days. That's well beyond the period at which it would be harvested - meaning that if the produce isn't treated and cleaned properly, the bacteria have a good chance of hitching a ride all the way to a salad plate...
...bacteria can routinely burrow into produce this way, that means that standards regulating ready-to-eat produce need to get even stricter. Potential sources of bacterial contamination, from animal droppings to improperly drained fields or unclean irrigation systems, should be monitored more tightly if the $2.6 billion prewashed salad industry is to survive. Already, some spinach farmers in California have plowed their spinach fields under, convinced that for the time being at least, no one will be eager to eat their greens...