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  • From: "robscott@freeshell.org" <robscott@freeshell.org>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] organic food blamed for e coli outbreak
  • Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:05:13 +0000 (UTC)


This story has been running for more than a day now:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/09/15/tainted.spinach.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others.

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In case the article is altered or removed by the time you see this - it is an AP article and it features two photographs of Earthbound Farm Organic Spinach. One is a picture of a variety of bagged greens with the organic label.

E. coli lives in the intestines of cattle and other animals and typically is spread through contamination by fecal material.





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