Article: FDA: Don't eat any fresh spinach: FARMERS DESTROY CROPS; E. COLI SICKENS 102 PEOPLE.

Byline: Lisa M. Krieger and John Woolfolk

Sep. 17--The government on Saturday expanded its warning against eating fresh bagged spinach by also telling consumers not to eat fresh spinach or salad mixes and other products containing fresh spinach until further notice. The warning from the federal Food and Drug Administration was prompted by a multistate outbreak of E. coli bacteria in Salinas Valley spinach that has killed one person among the 102 reported cases in 19 states. Growers say that unless the FDA retracts its warning, their produce is worthless, so some have begun destroying their crops.

"Spinach is harvested daily -- you can't just ...

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