CALIFORNIA: 2006 E. coli outbreak linked to local farm - (Bakersfield Californian)
February 22, 2008 – 7:53 pmhttp://www.bakersfield.com/hourly_news/story/370731.html
Food safety officials were cited as linking a Kern County farm to tainted iceberg lettuce that sickened 81 people in Iowa and Minnesota in late 2006.
The 16-month federal and state investigation was cited as finding that lettuce raised on Wegis Ranch in Buttonwillow and served at Taco Johns restaurants was the source of the large E. coli outbreak.
The report does not definitively state how the lettuce was contaminated but said water contaminated by manure from two nearby dairies could be a possible source.
The report found that Wegis Ranch uses manure water to irrigate some fields where animal feed is grown, and that lettuce linked to the E. coli outbreak was grown directly across from two of those fields. Further, the ranchs irrigation system may have allowed manure water to taint freshwater used to irrigate fields where lettuce was grown.
E.coli samples from the ranch and dairies genetically matched the strain found […]
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