More companies pull spinach products for E. coli
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Two more companies have recalled   their products, including pizza and salad, because they may   contain spinach linked to a food poisoning outbreak, the U.S.   Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday.
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As federal agents launched a criminal investigation into two produce companies involved in the contaminated spinach outbreak, Idaho health officials confirmed the death of a 2-year-old boy Sept. 20 was caused by tainted spinach.
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The outbreak of E. coli linked to fresh spinach was blamed for another five cases of illness Saturday, raising the number of people sickened to 171, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
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State health officials in Ohio are investigating whether a second death is the result of a deadly outbreak of E. coli linked to fresh spinach, as federal regulators expanded their search for the source of the contamination.
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Health officials in New Mexico positively identified a deadly strain of E. coli in a bag of spinach yesterday, providing a crucial clue that investigators say can be used to trace the source of an outbreak that has sickened 146 people.
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E. coli similar to that linked to a recent deadly outbreak has been found in eight fecal samples collected near two California farms that may have been a source of contaminated spinach.
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Tough food safety precautions and produce-tracking systems implemented last year after a fatal E. coli outbreak were put to the test when spinach from a produce company came up positive for salmonella bacteria, prompting a new recall.
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U.S. food safety inspectors said Tuesday they will expand tests and recall infected meat more rapidly to combat E. coli contamination of meat products after the largest American manufacturer of hamburger patties went out of business this month.
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RALEIGH -- Health investigators on Saturday identified more cases of E. coli in North Carolina, most of them linked to visits to the State Fair in Raleigh last month.
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Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista processing plant that may be the source of a nationwide outbreak.
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By Douglas Fischer California farmers are expected today to approve tighter standards for growing and processing leafy greens such as spinach, hoping to prevent another E. coli outbreak like one last fall that sickened almost 200 people nationwide and devastated the industry.
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Dole Food Company, a top U.S. food and fruit producer, has stepped up testing and tracking of produce to prevent outbreaks of E.coli like the one that sickened hundreds last fall, the firm said on Thursday.
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BOISE, Idaho  - A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an   elderly woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E. coli   infections raised to three the number of deaths related to a   nationwide health scare around fresh spinach, state health   officials said on Friday.
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Local supermarkets and grocers rushed yesterday to pull bagged spinach -- in some cases all spinach -- from shelves after federal health officials reported that one person died in Wisconsin and dozens more in 20 states were sickened by E. coli-tainted spinach.
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Three people have now been confirmed killed in an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 food poisoning in spinach that originated in California, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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A second California produce company   is recalling fresh spinach products as investigators hunt for   the source of an E. coli that killed one person and sickened   more than 100, a U.S. official said on Sunday.
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Two bags of Dole baby spinach that tested positive for the E. coli strain that has sickened 175 people nationwide were packaged at the same plant on the same day, California health officials said Monday.