Food Safety News8h
Investigations into outbreaks traced to lettuce and cucumbers continue
The Food and Drug Administration is continuing to investigate multiple foodborne outbreaks. For an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak ...
Food Safety News14d
New outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 likely caused by salad containing romaine and iceberg lettuce
Federal and state officials are investigating an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses thought to be linked to lettuce. There are 69 confirmed patients ...
AlphaGalileo2d
The World 's first CRISPR lettuce with increased resistance to fungal disease
The pathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum causes major problems in lettuce production, leading to reduced crop yield and ...
Quality Assurance7d
Multistate E. coli Outbreak Linked to Iceberg and Romaine Lettuce Blend
The iceberg and romaine lettuce blend was served at catering events, restaurants and a school, sickening 69 people in 10 ...
Contaminated salad at meeting gives Missouri teacher life-threatening illness, suit says
The teacher contracted E. coli from the lettuce blend, which led to a serious kidney infection, the lawsuit said.
KSDK27d
Restaurant's lettuce wasn't the source of a St. Louis E. coli outbreak, officials say
coli in an unopened package of iceberg lettuce collected at Andre's Banquet Center after an estimated 106 attendees of two school band events, two funerals, and a veterans event catered by the ...
E. coli cases genetically linked to Andre’s and national outbreak, St. Louis County says
St. Louis County health officials also said 25 local cases have been genetically linked to Andre’s Banquets & Catering.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch26d
St. Louis caterer’s lettuce tests negative for E. coli. ‘Bad for Andre’s,’ lawyer says
But the state health department said that the negative test only applies to one unopened package of iceberg lettuce. And the county health department said the test doesn’t rule out Andre’s ...