Aunt Mid’s Lettuce - 5 states
An outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 that was first identified at Michigan State University in Lansing has now been genetically matched to illnesses in five states - Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, New York, and Oregon. The source has been identified as commercially distributed lettuce from Aunt Mid’s Produce Company of Detroit, Michigan. In September, 2008 7 students fell ill at MSU in Lansing. Soon, those illnesses were genetically matched to the E. coli cultures from ill inmates at the Lenawee County jail. The outbreak widened as illnesses appeared in five states.
Aunt Mid’s lettuce has not revealed the source of the tainted lettuce, but Monterey County, CA, a center of the leafy-green industry in the US, is keeping a close watch on the outbreak. Monterey County is home to the Salinas Valley, which has had E. coli problems in the past.
On October 9, Marler Clark filed a lawsuit against Aunt Mid’s produce company on behalf of an Michigan Sate University student sickened in the outbreak.
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