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Don't Eat Romaine Grown in Salinas: Agencies

FDA investigates E. coli outbreak

(Newser) - US health officials on Friday told people to avoid romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, because of another food poisoning outbreak. The warning comes almost exactly one year after a similar outbreak led to a blanket warning about tainted romaine. The agencies urged people not to eat the leafy green...

FDA Narrows Its Romaine Lettuce Warning

Lettuce from outside parts of California not linked to outbreak

(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration has narrowed its warning not to eat romaine lettuce . The agency now says the only growing areas linked to a recent E. coli outbreak are in the Central Coast region of northern and central California and romaine lettuce grown elsewhere is probably safe, USA Today...

Tainted Water Blamed for Deadly E. Coli Outbreak

Romaine lettuce outbreak is over, feds say

(Newser) - The worst E. coli outbreak in the US since 2006 is over, with five people dead and more than 200 sickened by tainted romaine lettuce, federal authorities say. The outbreak, which affected people in 36 states and caused at least 96 hospitalizations, was traced to the Yuma region in western...

E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Lettuce Turns Fatal

Outbreak linked to romaine is getting worse

(Newser) - The first death has been reported in a national food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce. Federal health officials say California reported the death, but they did not provide other details. The government now has reports of 121 people who got sick in 25 states. At least 52 people have...

You Should Probably Throw Your Chopped Romaine Away

53 people sickened in lettuce recall

(Newser) - "Consumers anywhere in the United States who have store-bought chopped romaine lettuce at home, including salads and salad mixes, should not eat it and should throw it away, even if some of it was eaten and no one has gotten sick. If you do not know if the lettuce...

30K Pounds of Lettuce Recalled in Listeria Scare

Company yanks produce in wake of 16 cantaloupe deaths

(Newser) - A California food company has recalled some 30,000 pounds of lettuce feared tainted by listeria. The lettuce was distributed in 19 states and Canada, reports the Wall Street Journal . So far no illness linked to the lettuce has been reported, but 16 people have died from listeria in Colorado...

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