Nation's Restaurant News: FDA continues probe of tainted romaine

Nation's Restaurant News reported that a Yuma, Arizona farm has been identified as a source for some of the E. coli cases that have impacted foodservice romaine lettuce. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says Harrison Farms greens sickened people in an Alaska correctional facility, but they have yet to determine where the supply chain contamination occurred. 

“The agency is examining all possibilities, including that contamination may have occurred at any point along the growing, harvesting, packaging and distribution chain before reaching the Alaska correctional facility where it was served,” the FDA said.

The outbreak has impacted 98 people in 22 states between March 13 and April 20.

Restaurants should continue to monitor their sources for obtaining their lettuce to ensure they are offering customers safe, uncontaminated greens. 

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