An outbreak of E. coli in eight states has left at least one person dead and 50 others sick, federal health officials said Thursday, on television, in warning consumers not to eat bagged fresh spinach.
The death occurred in Wisconsin, where 20 others were also sickened, said Dr. David Acheson of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. The outbreak has sickened others -- eight of them seriously -- in Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah. Hopefully, an outbreak won't occur in South Carolina.
FDA officials do not know the source of the outbreak other than it appears to be linked to bagged spinach. On ABC News, they said, "We're advising people not to eat it." I would agree with that statement!
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