February 11, 2009 5:58 PM
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2 More Deaths From Tainted Spinach?
(CBS/AP)
Two more deaths are being investigated for possible links to tainted spinach.
An Idaho toddler has died in Utah from a kidney disease associated with E. coli infection, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Kyle Algood, 2, of Chubbuck, Idaho, died Wednesday at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City from hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), said Dr. Christine Hahn, an epidemiologist for the Idaho Department of Health. However, the Centers for Disease Control says E. coli O157 had not been detected in the child.
He had been flown to Salt Lake City from Pocatello, Idaho, earlier in the day.
The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown, Maryland, reports an 86-year-old Hagerstown woman died last week after becoming infected with E. coli. Her family said she had eaten fresh spinach before getting sick.
Officially, the outbreak has killed just one person and sickened at least 157 others in 23 states since last month. No cases in Maryland have been reported to the CDC.
The states in which cases have been reported Arizona (4 cases), California (1), Colorado (1), Connecticut (3), Idaho (4), Illinois (1), Indiana (8), Kentucky (7), Maine (2), Michigan (4), Minnesota (2), Nebraska (8), New Mexico (5), Nevada (1), New York (11), Ohio (20), Oregon (5), Pennsylvania (7), Utah (17), Virginia (1), Washington (3), Wisconsin (41), and Wyoming (1).
Meanwhile California produce growers and processors hope to salvage what's left of the spinach season and stop millions of dollars in losses by drafting new food-safety measures.
Federal officials have required the industry to adopt the measures before they will lift a week-old consumer warning on fresh spinach.
"We as an industry have to declare war on all food-borne illnesses," Tom Nassif, president of Western Growers Association, an industry group representing about 3,000 fruit and vegetable farmers in California and other states, said Thursday. "We have to do everything to assure the American public that our food is safe to consume."
The industry's response to the E. coli outbreak traced to bagged spinach from central California would build on existing efforts to protect produce from contamination rather than entail a complete overhaul, Nassif said.
It was too early to provide details, Nassif said, but the new measures would likely focus on improved water and soil testing and beefed-up sanitation standards for field workers and packaging plants.
An Idaho toddler has died in Utah from a kidney disease associated with E. coli infection, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Kyle Algood, 2, of Chubbuck, Idaho, died Wednesday at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City from hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), said Dr. Christine Hahn, an epidemiologist for the Idaho Department of Health. However, the Centers for Disease Control says E. coli O157 had not been detected in the child.
He had been flown to Salt Lake City from Pocatello, Idaho, earlier in the day.
The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown, Maryland, reports an 86-year-old Hagerstown woman died last week after becoming infected with E. coli. Her family said she had eaten fresh spinach before getting sick.
Officially, the outbreak has killed just one person and sickened at least 157 others in 23 states since last month. No cases in Maryland have been reported to the CDC.
The states in which cases have been reported Arizona (4 cases), California (1), Colorado (1), Connecticut (3), Idaho (4), Illinois (1), Indiana (8), Kentucky (7), Maine (2), Michigan (4), Minnesota (2), Nebraska (8), New Mexico (5), Nevada (1), New York (11), Ohio (20), Oregon (5), Pennsylvania (7), Utah (17), Virginia (1), Washington (3), Wisconsin (41), and Wyoming (1).
Meanwhile California produce growers and processors hope to salvage what's left of the spinach season and stop millions of dollars in losses by drafting new food-safety measures.
Federal officials have required the industry to adopt the measures before they will lift a week-old consumer warning on fresh spinach.
"We as an industry have to declare war on all food-borne illnesses," Tom Nassif, president of Western Growers Association, an industry group representing about 3,000 fruit and vegetable farmers in California and other states, said Thursday. "We have to do everything to assure the American public that our food is safe to consume."
The industry's response to the E. coli outbreak traced to bagged spinach from central California would build on existing efforts to protect produce from contamination rather than entail a complete overhaul, Nassif said.
It was too early to provide details, Nassif said, but the new measures would likely focus on improved water and soil testing and beefed-up sanitation standards for field workers and packaging plants.
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