In a sweeping move, the CDC is expanding its warning to consumers to cover all types of romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Arizona growing region after the food was linked to an E. coli outbreak. And, it’s telling consumers to avoid romaine lettuce all together, because it can be so hard to track its growing region.
The news comes after the CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said they were investigating the multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli O157:H7) infections.