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• E. coli outbreak in 8 states tied to spinach
  ...An outbreak of E. coli in eight states has left at least one person dead and 50 others sick, federal health officials said Thursday in warning consumers not to eat bagged fresh spinach....
  MSNBC - Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:58 EST
  
• E. Coli Outbreak In New York And New Jersey Fast Food Chain
  ...Nearly 40 people, some of whom are seriously ill, were struck by E. Coli food poisoning last month after eating in Taco Bell restaurants in New York and New Jersey. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:00 EST
  
• E. coli outbreak may be over: CDC
  ...WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An outbreak of E. coli food poisoning linked to Taco Bell restaurants appears to be over, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday....
  Reuters - Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:49 EST
  
• E. coli outbreak mystifies investigators
  ... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. food safety regulators said on Thursday they were still mystified by an outbreak of E. coli that has killed one person, sickened 157 and forced all fresh spinach to be pulled from store shelves....
  Reuters - Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:48 EST
  
• E. coli outbreak now in 6 states; Taco Bell still focus
  ...More than 120 people in six states may be infected with the strain of E. coli bacteria involved in an outbreak that may be linked to Taco Bell restaurants, officials said Friday....
  CNN - Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:54 EST
  
• E. Coli Outbreak Raises Cleaning Questions In Industry
  ...Now that health officials and the produce industry have begun the investigation to identify the sources of multiple E. coli outbreaks in spinach, there are steps the produce and foodservice industries, as well as consumers, can take in the future to helpprotect themselves, said Todd Wichmann, chemical engineer and president ofHealthPro Brands, maker of FIT Fruit and Vegetable Wash. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
  
• E. coli outbreak raises regulation questions: FDA
  ... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tighter regulation may be needed after an outbreak of E. coli that has killed one person, sickened 157 and forced all fresh spinach to be pulled from store shelves, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration official said on Thursday....
  Reuters - Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:48 EST
  
• E. coli outbreak sickens 11; nine ate at same restaurant
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  CNN - Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:10 EST
  
• E. coli outbreak sickens 15 in N.J.
  ...An outbreak of E. coli bacteria has sickened at least 15 people, two seriously, in central New Jersey during the past two weeks, officials said....
  MSNBC - Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:07 EST
  
• E. coli outbreak sickens 19 in New Jersey
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  CNN - Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:45 EST
  
• E. coli outbreak spreads to 25 states
  ...The outbreak of E. coli has now spread to half the states.  As of Friday afternoon, infections had been reported in 166 people in 25 states....
  MSNBC - Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:49 EST
  
• E. coli outbreak tied to Calif. lettuce
  ...Contaminated California-grown lettuce was the possible source of the E. coli outbreak that sickened 81 people late last year at Taco John’s restaurants in two states, health officials said Friday....
  MSNBC - Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:41 EST
  
• E. coli outbreak traced to bagged spinach; 1 dead
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  CNN - Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:41 EST
  
• E. coli Outbreak: Questions & Answers
  ...E. coli Outbreak: Questions & Answers...
  WebMD - Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:15 EST
  
• E. Coli Outbreak: Questions and Answers
  ...Title: E. Coli Outbreak: Questions and AnswersCategory: Health NewsCreated: 9/18/2006Last Editorial Review: 9/18/2006...
  MedicineNet - Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
  
• E. Coli Research Identifies Two New Keys To Regulation Of Bacterial Gene Expression
  ...The cellular process of transcription, in which the enzyme RNA polymerase constructs chains of RNA from information contained in DNA, depends upon previously underappreciated sections of both the DNA promoter region and RNA polymerase, according to work done with the bacterium E. coli and published today (June 16) in the journal Cell by a team of bacteriologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:00 EST
  
• E. Coli Sickens 39 in New Jersey and New York
  ...Traced to Taco Bell restaurants, it was the nation’s most serious outbreak of E. coli toxins since contaminated spinach killed three in September....
  New York Times - Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:51 EST
  
• E. Coli Sickens 39 in New Jersey and New York
  ...Traced to the Taco Bell chain, it was the most serious E. coli outbreak since contaminated spinach killed three people in September....
  New York Times - Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:09 EST
  
• E. coli strain matched to Calif. ranch
  ...Investigators on Thursday matched the strain of deadly E. coli behind a recent outbreak to a cattle ranch next to Salinas Valley spinach fields....
  MSNBC - Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:44 EST
  
• E. coli threat may have passed in New Jersey
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  CNN - Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:24 EST