Your Salad May Again Make You Sick This Winter

A 100,000-head cattle operation in Yuma, Arizona, is still being investigated by the Food and Drug Administration as a possible source of last spring’s 36-state outbreak of E. coli bacteria in romaine lettuce that sickened at least 210, and killed five.

Six months after that outbreak, new crops are going into the ground in Yuma, yet little has been done to protect the plantings from waste-related contaminants produced by large animal production facilities, food safety lawyers tell Bloomberg Law. Yuma is known as the nation’s “Winter Salad Bowl” because it produces more than 90 percent of all leafy winter greens ...