Environmental factors impacting the risk of produce becoming contaminated in the Yuma growing region of Arizona are the subject of a new study.
University of Arizona (UA) Cooperative Extension scientists are partnering with the U.S.
Continue Reading Extension scientists to conduct new environmental study on Yuma’s produce region
The leafy green growing season around Yuma, AZ is about to get underway and there will be one difference from last year. This year, the buffer zone between concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs,
Continue Reading Bigger buffers between leafy greens and CAFOs ready for new growing season
More people are sick, more people have died, and more states are reporting E. coli infections in an ongoing outbreak linked to romaine lettuce. As the CDC was releasing the new numbers Friday, growers were
Continue Reading E. coli claims 4 more lives; growers promise changes
An E. coli outbreak traced to chopped romaine lettuce has spread to another five states and public health officials are reporting a hospitalization rate of almost 60 percent, which is twice the usual rate.
There
Continue Reading Unusually high percentage of E. coli victims hospitalized
Chopped romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma, AZ area is the likely source to date of this year’s only multistate E. coli O157: H7 outbreak, and it is not over.
The federal Centers for Disease
Continue Reading Yuma area grew romaine lettuce that’s likely causing E. coli outbreak
