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Article: SPINACH, RAW MILK AND SAFETY
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- Santa Fe Reporter
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- October 11, 2006
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If some activists get their way, the outbreak of E. coli that killed several people and sickened about 200 last month may have long-lasting effects on American farms. As it stands now, we have no rules about testing foods like spinach for things like E. coli. The recent outbreak has highlighted the vulnerability of our food supply, and now food safety groups are demanding that the Food and Drug Administration put in place tighter controls, including testing.
All this was rolling around in my head last week as I read a long story about raw milk in the Washington Post Magazine. Thomas Bartlett's story-which didn't mention spinach-described how raw milk devotees and earnest dairy farmers ...