date:Nov 07, 2018
Lettuce growers in the desert valleys of the US Southwest will face more federal scrutiny during the winter growing season. The aim is to prevent the type of contamination with E. coli bacteria that killed 5 people and made 205 others ill this year.
The Food and Drug Administration for the first time will routinely test samples of romaine coming from the lower Colorado River area in Arizona and California, which will begin its harvest this month and continue through April.
Growers in both stat