U.S. Opens Criminal Inquiry on Health Measures Taken by Spinach Growers

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: U.S. Opens Criminal Inquiry on Health Measures Taken by Spinach Growers
By GARDINER HARRIS and LIBBY SANDER
Published: October 5, 2006

Federal investigators have opened a criminal investigation into accusations that some California spinach growers and distributors failed to take adequate measures to ensure that their spinach was safe before selling it.

Yesterday, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Office of Criminal Investigations in the Food and Drug Administration carried out search warrants at Natural Selection Foods of San Juan Bautista and Growers Express of Salinas....

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The criminal investigation is surprising in a scare that sickened 193 people in 26 states and Canada, resulting in the death of a Wisconsin woman and 98 being people hospitalized, the food and drug agency said....

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Eleven bags of fresh spinach have tested positive for E. coli O157:H7, the agency reported yesterday. The United States attorney for the Northern District of California, Kevin V. Ryan, said investigators had no evidence that the contamination was deliberate or that it continued.

“We are investigating allegations that certain spinach growers and distributors may not have taken all necessary or appropriate steps to ensure that their spinach was safe before it was placed into interstate commerce,” Mr. Ryan said....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/us/05spinach.html

[Tellurian]

1. They must look at the DNA of the plant..

then check the dna of the seeds used for planting..

This sounds like a bio engineering problem.

[aquart]

3. No, no it doesn't.

[Tellurian]

7. E-Coli has been genetically inserted into the dna

of plant seed. Look up the work of genetically modified food done by Monsanto..

Rent and weep!



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[wtmusic]

2. Meanwhile, 295 people die in Iraq; U.S. Opens No Criminal Inquiry

into those responsible.

Spinach: The New WMD? :shrug:

[Stargazer99]

5. We are surprised? Pro-life bunch is making sure business

doesn't take responsibility for killing employees and customers.

[Stargazer99]

4. Gutless administration lets corps, mine operators

and probably others can list more that have through omission (usually to improve profits) to kill employees, mines being the most prominate example. Now it is corp farming that is killing because this administration is letting them do it. Safety measures costs money and human life is cheap (so much for the pro-life bunch in charge). Any company that kills through negligence ought to have their business nationalized...it would put a quick stop to the murdering of employees.

[kurth]

6. Give workers field toilets with toilet paper and soap, and nail clippers

to keep their fingernails short.

[sutz12]

8. The FDA used to be about prevention...

not investigation and prosecution. :shrug:

[Tellurian]

9. Check out this link

http://www.thefutureoffood.com/resources.htm


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