Tainted Spinach Traced to California Farm

" SACRAMENTO (AP) - Fresh spinach that sparked a nationwide E. coli outbreak
last fall was grown on a roughly 50-acre plot in San Benito County, health
officials told state lawmakers.

Officials said at a legislative hearing Tuesday that investigators
identified the grower who was farming that plot, which was in the second
year of a three-year transition to organic production.

However, they declined to release further details until they complete a full
report on the outbreak. Dr. Kevin Reilly of the California Department of
Health Services did not give an exact date for releasing the report with the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but said "hopefully within the next few
weeks."

Investigators previously have said they linked a strain of E. coli that
killed three people and sickened more than 200 others in September to wild
pigs. "


Huh. Conagra is nowhere in sight.
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