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Students seeking to be “strong to the finich” like Popeye the Sailor Man by eating their spinach are going to have to find an alternative source of iron...
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...
...Until we get word from the [Food and Drug Administration] and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health that it’s safe to resume eating spinach, it’s best to clear it all off,” Martin said...
Among the products that Martin said will now be off the HUDS menu are baby spinach, mesclun greens, and creamed or cooked spinach...
While Massachusetts is not among the 19 states that have reported E. coli cases linked to the tainted spinach, Natural Selection Foods LLC—the world’s largest producer of organic produce and the company linked to the outbreak—has recalled 34 brands that are distributed throughout the country...