CALIFORNIA: Growers, companies on the ‘fence’ about barriers - (Monterey County Herald)
September 12, 2007 – 8:57 pmA year after tainted spinach from the Central Coast killed three people, sickened more than 200 and cost local growers and companies millions of dollars, the industry is still, according to this story, grappling with the best way to make sure an outbreak never happens again.
Short of growing under a bubble, many in the industry are now wondering whether putting tall fences around fields could be the most effective way to keep animals, particularly deer, away from crops.
But while deer are on the Centers for Disease Control’s list of animals found to carry potentially deadly strains of E. coli in their intestines, scientists studying E. coli in the Salinas Valley say there is little evidence to show they spread the pathogen.
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