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Oct. 2, 2006 -- The FDA's warning on fresh spinach has gotten narrower: It now applies only to products containing fresh spinach from Natural Selection Foods with a date code of Oct. 1 or earlier.
The warning is due to the current outbreak of E. coli infections, which has caused at least one death and scores of illnesses.
"All spinach implicated in the current outbreak has traced back to Natural Selection Foods LLC of San Juan Bautista, California," the FDA announced on Sept. 29.
Natural Selection Foods recalled all its products containing fresh spinach on Sept. 15. Four other companies followed with their own recalls of products containing fresh spinach bought from Natural Selection Foods.
Those four companies are River Ranch of Salinas, Calif., RLB Foods of West Caldwell, N.J., Triple B Corp. (doing business as S.T. Produce) of Seattle, and Pacific Coast Fruit Company of Portland, Ore.
The FDA is still investigating the E. coli outbreak. Exactly how E. coli got into the spinach isn't yet known.
The FDA says it will hold a public meeting later this year, once the spinach investigation is over, to address the larger issue of food-borne illnesses linked to leafy greens.