It’s baaaack and this time it could be plaguing Kroger stores supply of spinach — our old foe Listeria has returned and is once again triggering a recall. Kroger is alerting customers in 15 states that its Fresh Selections Tender Spinach might be contaminated with Listeria. [More]
Kroger Recalls Spinach In 15 States Because No One Wants A Listeria Salad
By September 19, 2012
This Bag Of Chopped Spinach Needs More Bird Feathers
By December 27, 2007
Zach’s wife found a bird feather in a bag of 365 Chopped Spinach. When she called Whole Foods to complain, a bird-brained employee quipped “You’d be surprised at how much stuff people find in their food!”
Bagged Spinich Recalled For Salmonella
By August 30, 2007
Metz Fresh LLC has recalled bagged spinach sold in the continental US and Canada after one sample tested positive for salmonella. There have been no illnesses reported so far.
FDA Knew About Tainted Peanut Butter And Spinach But Was Too Poor To Act
By April 24, 2007
Remember that spinach and peanut butter that got recalled? Turns out the FDA knew of the dangers to the food supply for years but, understaffed and underfunded, they only took tiny steps to address the problems.
We're Scared Of Spinach
By February 6, 2007
Plummeting spinach sales have also prompted the produce industry to seek federal oversight to assure buyers that fresh produce is safe.
The Party’s Over: Spinach is Coming Back
By September 26, 2006
That’s right, you heard me. You’re not leaving the table until you finish your spinach.
UPDATE: Popeye Gets E. Coli
By September 18, 2006
No one knows how a good portion of the nation’s spinach farms became a verdant, leafy forest for the bowel-liquefying E. Coli virus. But the good news is that one of the suppliers of bad spinach has been identified.
Popeye Gets E. Coli
By September 15, 2006
And millions of small children all across America suddenly break out into one collective peal of delight: a massive outbreak of E. coli in bagged spinach has federal health officials warning consumers not to eat the foul-tasting weed.
