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September 15, 2006

Health Dept. warns: Don't eat the spinach

The Rhode Island Department of Health is advising stores and restaurants to discard all bagged fresh spinach, and for consumers to do the same, after an outbreak of E coli in multiple states that may be linked to spinach consumption.

"The Department of Health is helping disseminate this advisory from the Food and Drug Administration, and we are warning people that we don’t want them eating fresh bagged spinach if they’ve bought it and have it at home,’’ said spokesperson Mariah Wah-Fitta.

"Washing it isn’t going to help,’’ Wah-Fitta said. She explained that E-coli can get into the plant or its roots, "and there is nothing to do to make it right at this point.’’

No cases of E. coli from the spinach have been reported in Rhode Island, Wah-Fitta said.

-- Journal staff writer Karen Lee Ziner

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