VEGGIE INSPECTIONS
Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter, has three bills that would step up efforts to prevent contamination of green leafy vegetables with E. coli bacteria. The bills were introduced after officials linked Salinas Valley spinach and lettuce to E. coli outbreaks last year that killed at least three people and sickened about 300. Florez’s proposals
Barbara Anderson of the Fresno Bee wrote over the weekend that Fresno County health investigators said 15 E. coli cases from a recent outbreak had been confirmed as of Friday afternoon. One man has been hospitalized with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, a kidney complication from the bacterial infection, said David Luchini, communicable disease division manager
Minnesota Department of Health and Agriculture officials investigated seven cases of E. coli O157:H7 infections associated with eating ground beef purchased from Lund’s or Byerly’s stores. All of the cases had purchased the ground beef from one of four Lund’s or Byerly’s stores in Minneapolis in April. The cases include two children and five adults.
A few weeks ago I posted "Seems to be backsliding on E. coli in meat" after seeing at least three recent E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks tied to the consumption of red meat. As I said before, from 1993 to 2002, most of the E. coli cases we did were from tainted hamburger. Since 2002, most
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