FDA and States Closer to Identifying Source of E.Coli Contamination Associated With Illnesses at Taco John's Restaurants
2007-01-23
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that it has moved closer to identifying the source of illness for the Taco John E.coli outbreak. FDA and the state of California, working in conjunction with state health officials in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, have DNA-matched the strain of E.coli0157:H7 bacteria associated with the outbreak with tow environmental samples gathered from dairy farms near a lettuce growing area in California's Central Valley.