Lettuce E. coli outbreak spreads to fourth state - CNN.com
(CNN) -- An outbreak of food-borne illness linked to romaine lettuce has spread to four states and sickened at least 23 people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Tennessee is the latest state to confirm a case of E. coli 0145, which has already sickened people in Michigan, Ohio and New York.
The CDC said Wednesday that the confirmed cases rose to 23 from the 19 it reported last week. The agency also is reporting seven other probable cases that have not been confirmed yet.
No deaths have been reported.
Investigators have linked the illnesses to tainted romaine lettuce grown on a farm in Yuma, Arizona.
Two distributors -- Freshway Foods and Vaughan Foods -- have voluntarily recalled bagged lettuce that was harvested from the farm.
Ohio-based Freshway's recall came a day after the New York state Public Health Laboratory in Albany reported finding E. coli O145 in an unopened bag of Freshway Foods' shredded romaine lettuce, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
The company said the recalled lettuce had "best if used by" dates of May 12 or earlier and was sold to wholesalers, food service outlets and some in-store salad bars and delis in Alabama, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Damn, farmers are messin with my diet.
(CNN) -- An outbreak of food-borne illness linked to romaine lettuce has spread to four states and sickened at least 23 people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Tennessee is the latest state to confirm a case of E. coli 0145, which has already sickened people in Michigan, Ohio and New York.
The CDC said Wednesday that the confirmed cases rose to 23 from the 19 it reported last week. The agency also is reporting seven other probable cases that have not been confirmed yet.
No deaths have been reported.
Investigators have linked the illnesses to tainted romaine lettuce grown on a farm in Yuma, Arizona.
Two distributors -- Freshway Foods and Vaughan Foods -- have voluntarily recalled bagged lettuce that was harvested from the farm.
Ohio-based Freshway's recall came a day after the New York state Public Health Laboratory in Albany reported finding E. coli O145 in an unopened bag of Freshway Foods' shredded romaine lettuce, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
The company said the recalled lettuce had "best if used by" dates of May 12 or earlier and was sold to wholesalers, food service outlets and some in-store salad bars and delis in Alabama, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Damn, farmers are messin with my diet.
