The Smoking Spinach Bag

Via ProMED-mail: The AP reports that health officials have pinned the E. coli outbreak on the prime suspect, spinach from the Salinas Valley.

A bag of tainted Dole baby spinach found in the refrigerator of a New Mexico patient was a "smoking gun" that allowed investigators to zero in on farms in the Salinas Valley.
The spinach tested positive for the same strain of E. coli linked to the outbreak. Dole is one of the brands of spinach recalled late last week by Natural Selection Foods LLC of San Juan Bautista, California.