Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to Romaine Lettuce
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to Romaine Lettuce
Highlights
Information collected to date indicates that romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Arizona growing region could be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 and could make people sick.
Do not eat or buy romaine lettuce unless you can confirm it is not from the Yuma, Arizona, growing region.
Product labels often do not identify growing regions; so, do not eat or buy romaine lettuce if you do not know where it was grown.
This advice includes whole heads and hearts of romaine, chopped romaine, baby romaine, organic romaine, and salads and salad mixes containing romaine lettuce. If you do not know if the lettuce in a salad mix is romaine, do not eat it.
Do not serve or sell any romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Arizona growing region. This includes whole heads and hearts of romaine, chopped romaine, baby romaine, organic romaine, and salads and salad mixes containing romaine lettuce.
Restaurants and retailers should ask their suppliers about the source of their romaine lettuce.
CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the FDA are investigating a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli O157:H7) infections.
Ninety-eight people infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from 22 states.
Forty-six people have been hospitalized, including 10 people who have developed a type of kidney failure called hemolytic uremic syndrome.
No deaths have been reported.
This investigation is ongoing, and CDC will provide updates when more information is available.
