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Five people have been killed and hundreds have fallen ill due to an E. coli outbreak from romaine lettuce, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.
The deaths occurred in California, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Minnesota and New York, according to the CDC.
At least one Ohio case was recorded as part of the outbreak when a 24-year-old woman in Mahoning County was hospitalized. She has since been released, according to the Ohio Department of Public Health.
Nearly 200 people from about 36 states have been sickened by the outbreak that was first discovered in mid-March, reports The Washington Post. Nearly half of the people sickened by the E. coli have been hospitalized, according to the CDC.
Around 26 people developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a form of kidney failure that can be life-threatening to someone with weakend immune systems such as children and the elderly, according to The Post. The majority of people who fell ill from the outbreak live in California.
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/cdc-dead-close-200-sick-worst-coli-outbreak-since-2006/nXHmez9ObPatsPsAz5hD7I/
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(297,503 posts)From eating Romaine.. comes from the Yuma area but they don't know which farm.
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(58,785 posts)say nine consumer and food safety groups.
In a May 24 letter to Gottlieb, the groups said all FDA needs to do is to implement the long-overdue directive laid out by Congress in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requiring the agency to issue a proposed rule establishing recordkeeping requirements for high-risk foods.
This will improve the agencys ability to quickly trace the source of foods linked to an outbreak of foodborne illness, so it can initiate swift recalls, said the consumer and food safety groups in the letter.
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2018/05/make-leafy-greens-high-risk-and-chase-them-down-quickly-say-consumer-groups/#.WxUjEe4vxdh
This site reports internationally. A child has died and others are ill in France from cheese-borne E. coli. The "world's largest recorded listeriosis outbreak," in South Africa, is reportedly slowing, 208 deaths so far.