FDA Narrows Down Contaminated Lettuce Origin to 33 Distributors, Growers, and Farms
Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new information about the most recent Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce from California.
So far, the traceback investigation from four restaurants in three different states have implicated that 10 distributors, 12 growers, and 11 farms could all be potential sources of the contaminated romaine lettuce. The information makes one thing clear: no single farm, harvester, grower, or distributor is solely linked to this outbreak.