Jun 10th, 2008 · Worried about your tomatoes and spinach? The Bush administration is asking Congress to give the Food and Drug Administration an additional $275 million in next year's budget to improve the safety of the nation's food supply. With the added money the FDA would open offices in China, India and Central America to provide more inspections of food and medical products.
Sep 14th, 2007 · Farms that produce California's leafy greens start a new voluntary inspection program a year after the Food and Drug Administration warns consumers not to eat fresh spinach because it might be contaminated with E. coli.
Jun 4th, 2007 · Think the problems causing last fall's spinach scare are solved? Think again. The company at the center of the tainted spinach scare, Natural Selection Foods, has started an ambitious testing program. More than 30 times since October, they've found disease-causing bacteria on samples of salad greens arriving at their processing plant. Sam Fromartz reports.
Apr 24th, 2007 · A congressional panel holds a hearing on contaminated food - spinach, peanut butter, and canned foods - that have put the health of people and their pets at risk. The question is whether food producers, manufacturers and the federal government were negligent in doing what they could to make sure that the food was produced in safe environments.
Apr 12th, 2007 · Spinach is back in California's Salinas Valley for the first time since last fall's deadly E. coli outbreak. But while the state's largest spinach growers will follow new safety guidelines, many smaller ones may not. Federal and state health officials say they're concerned. But they aren't sure mandatory regulations are feasible. Ben Adler of member station KAZU reports.
Dec 15th, 2006 · From spinach to lettuce to Taco Bell's green onions, questions abound about food safety and foodborne illnesses. Are there procedures, technologies, or regulations that should be in place to help protect consumers?
Oct 13th, 2006 · The source of the E. coli bacteria that tainted spinach crops in Central California, leading to three deaths and hundreds more made seriously ill, has been traced to cows at a ranch near the spinach fields outside the town of Salinas. John Sepulvado from member station KAZU reports.
Oct 13th, 2006 · Spinach, tainted by E. coli bacteria, has reportedly made about 200 people in two dozen states sick. At least three people are said to have died from the outbreak. Lawmakers and advocates are demanding federal authorities do more to eliminate the contamination. Farai Chideya talks to William Marler, a Seattle attorney representing more than 90 people affected by the outbreak and Marler's client Ken Costello who recently lost his mother-in-law to E. coli poisoning.