Federal investigators continue to search for a source of Salmonella Typhimurium while the number of patients in an outbreak increases.

As of July 3, there were 80 confirmed patients in the outbreak, up from 53 a week ago, according to an update from the Food and Drug Administration. The agency

Continue Reading More outbreak patients found as FDA continues to investigate Salmonella infections

“Guarded optimism.” That’s the way Elston Grubaugh, general manager of the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District in the eastern Yuma, AZ, growing area describes his thoughts about the current romaine lettuce season.

In 2018, an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma area
Continue Reading Yuma romaine growers hopeful harvest will end without E. coli issues

Urban farmers growing vegetables in Africa could accidentally be helping to spread disease by irrigating crops with wastewater, according to researchers.

In a report published in the Environmental Research journal, the scientists found evidence in Burkina Faso canal water samples of virulent pathogens commonly responsible for waterborne diseases which
Continue Reading Study documents that irrigating crops with wastewater can spread disease

Outbreak investigators say a cattle feedlot near a canal providing water to growing regions in Arizona is a key element in their hypothesis about the source of E. coli that contaminated romaine lettuce earlier this year.

The Food and Drug Administration has been investigating the outbreak, linked to romaine grown
Continue Reading FDA says cattle feedlot could be to blame for E. coli in canal water used on romaine