[Sca-cooks] Spinach recall

[Johnna Holloway]

Hundreds of news reports on the spinach recall--
- An outbreak of E. coli in eight US states has killed one person and 
sickened at least 49 others, federal health officials said, while 
warning consumers nationwide not to eat bagged fresh spinach.

The death occurred in Wisconsin, where 20 people were made ill, state 
officials said.

The outbreak has sickened others - eight of them seriously - in 
Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah, 
federal health officials said on Thursday.

In California, state health officials were investigating a possible case 
that could be linked to the outbreak and warned consumers not to eat the 
produce.

*Bagged spinach *

FDA officials do not know the source of the outbreak other than it 
appears to be linked to bagged fresh spinach.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1999096,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=2443600

Johnnae