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<P><STRONG>I've read the tainted spinach is from California and is distributed under numerous lables. The ones that are commonly sold around here are Earthbound Farms and Dole.</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Also, remember some mixed salads might contain spinach. . . so out they go. Don't take a chance.</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Ellen A. Roskovich</STRONG><BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>Debbie Gray <dgray@uidaho.edu></I><BR>To: <I>vision2020@moscow.com</I><BR>Subject: <I>[Vision2020] FW: E. coli Outbreak from Spinach</I><BR>Date: <I>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:20:13 -0700</I><BR>>FYI....<BR>><BR>>Debbie (is this the revenge of the spinach??)<BR>><BR>> > To: Extension Faculty and Staff<BR>> ><BR>> > From: Jeff Kronenberg<BR>> ><BR>> > We are experiencing an E. coli outbreak from Spinach in Idaho and<BR>> > many other states; one death had been reported so far.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > Feds warn: Don't eat fresh bagged spinach: One dead, 50 sickened in<BR>> > nine states, including Ore. 14.sep.06 The Associated Press and<BR>> > KTVZ.com news sources<BR>> > http://www.ktvz.com/story.cfm?nav=news&storyID=16636 Federal
health<BR>> > officials are warning people not to eat bagged fresh spinach after an<BR>> > outbreak of E. coli in eight states, including Oregon, has left at<BR>> > least one person dead and 50 others sick. The death occurred in<BR>> > Wisconsin. The cases of people getting sick were reported in<BR>> > Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah.<BR>> > Epidemiologists in the Oregon Department of Human Services and in<BR>> > Wisconsin have traced the illness to packaged, washed spinach,<BR>> > although they so far have been unable to identify whether the<BR>> > contamination is confined to a single brand. DHS epidemiologist Bill<BR>> > Keene was quoted as saying Thursday afternoon, "We have reports of<BR>> > cases of E. coli O157 illness in Oregon, Idaho, Washington,<BR>> > Wisconsin, Utah, New
Mexico, Connecticut, Indiana and Michigan.<BR>> > Although we have identified packaged spinach as the source, people<BR>> > have either varying or no recollection of the brand they purchased."<BR>> > Keene said that epidemiologists are asking people who have become ill<BR>> > for credit and cash-register receipts they received when they made<BR>> > the purchase.<BR>> ><BR>> > "We're now trying to pin down the brand," he said. Although five<BR>> > persons' illness has been confirmed by the state public health<BR>> > laboratory, he said, state epidemiologists have received reports of<BR>> > illness in several dozen people and are working with them as well.<BR>> > Keene said DHS would name the brand of the contaminated product<BR>> > publicly as soon as it is identified.<BR>> ><BR>>
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