How did spinach get E.Coli?
No one knows of yet, but the best guesses are from the fertilizer or the water in which the spinach was washed. What are the medical ramifications of the spinach outbreak? Realistically, this is a small outbreak. The young, the elderly and the infirm are at severe risk. Everyone else is at less of a risk. This outbreak has garnered press because it is nationwide outbreak. There are typically 60 deaths a year due to E. Coli., but rarely do we hear much about those. One of the questions that should be asked after this outbreak passes is “Why was this outbreak given so much coverage?” What are the legal ramfications? It’s difficult to say at this point without knowing how this outbreak occured. But the best guess is that very few, if any laws were broken as there are very few, if any, laws to be broken. Any legal questions will likely be brought in civil lawsuits against any brand of bagged spinach that can proven to have contained the E. Coli bacteria that led to a consumers death and/or
