Spinach Recall 2006
Categories: spinach, vegetable, pre-bagged lettuce
As a nationwide recall of all spinach remains in effect, officials do not suspect fowl play. America’s fresh spinach E. coli outbreak has killed one individual, sickened merely 109 others and ceased the ingestion of the normally nutritious vegetable.
Certain officials theorize that the spinach epidemic is attributed to contaminated irrigation water. Although authorities continue to investigate the cause of the E. coli outbreak in spinach, the most prevalent triggers of E. coli occur during a flood when vegetation can be tainted by water, contamination via animal feces (cattle, deer or sheep), or if the water was in direct contact with animal fecal matter.
Read the following facts on Earthbound,
>> 2006 marks Earthbound’s twentieth year selling bags of pre-washed salad produce
>> Traversing 29,000 acres in California, Arizona, other United States farmlands, Mexico as well as other foreign markets, Earthbound, the company in question of the latest spinach recall, sells over 100 types of vegetables and fruits
>> Weekly, Earthbound accounts for approximately, 30 million salad servings in North America (the United States and Canada).
>> Earthbound produce accounts for almost three-quarters of the agriculture found in all 50 United States as well as Canada.
>> Consumers who purchased bagged spinach cultivated by Earthbound should either contact the company, or return the product to the grocery store where it was bought.
>> Nearly 75 percent of the fresh market spinach cultivated in the United States is grown in California ( Source: California Farm Bureau Federation).
By Holly Bentz, contributing editor, Copyright 2006 fruitionMedia.net
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