CALIFORIA: One-year anniversary shows a valley transformed - (Salinas Californian)
September 14, 2007 – 6:26 pmOne year ago Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration delivered a body blow to the Salinas Valley agriculture industry when it announced an unprecedented, blanket warning against eating any fresh, bagged spinach.
The FDA advisory came in response to a multi-state outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 that killed at least three people and sickened more than 200.
The story says that in the year since that warning, which lasted two weeks, a chastened ag industry has made major changes in how it handles its leafy greens products.
Joe Pezzini, vice president of operations for Ocean Mist Farms in Castroville, who, in his role as chairman of the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California, became the face of Salinas Valley agriculture during the outbreak, was cited as saying Thursday at a luncheon honoring him for outstanding contributions to Monterey County agriculture, the chief economic engine of the county, that, “There were many days when […]
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