Tuesday, August 21, 2012

FDA recalls contaminated romaine lettuce


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ABC World News (8/20, story 7, 0:25, Sawyer) reported, "And now we have a new warning tonight about contaminated fruits and vegetables. Last week, we told you about cantaloupe from Indiana carrying salmonella and today a major recall of romaine lettuce grown in California and shipped to 19 states. The fear is E. coli."
        The Santa Fe New Mexican (8/21, Haywood) reports that Food and Drug Administration has "issued a nationwide recall of a specific lot of romaine lettuce, some of which was shipped to New Mexico, that has tested positive for E. coli bacteria." The agency said that some of the "individually wrapped heads of Tanimura & Antle brand romaine could have been sold at Walmart stores in the state between Aug. 2 and Aug. 19." Thus far, no related illnesses have been reported. The New Mexico Environment Department said the recall is a "precaution based on the testing of a single, random sample by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency."
        WUSA-TV Washington (8/21, Wilson) on its website adds that the Tanimaura and Antle Field Fresh Wrapped lettuce wrappings were stamped with an Aug. 19 "use by date." 

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