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title: "Nation's Restaurant News: FDA continues probe of tainted romaine"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/26f529ea-e8fa-4b17-9aa4-e7d04c9c20aa
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-fda-continues-probe-of-tainted-romaine-2706408
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
topics: ["Regulation & legal"]
published: 2018-04-30T20:15:26.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:09:17.159Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/c703f7c24d703e2433b48fb5d7d5f0207196.jpg
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# Nation's Restaurant News: FDA continues probe of tainted romaine

**TL;DR:** The FDA continues to investigate a Yuma, Arizona farm identified as a source of E. coli cases affecting foodservice romaine lettuce. The outbreak has impacted 98 people in 22 states between March 13 and April 20.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-04-30. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-fda-continues-probe-of-tainted-romaine-2706408).*

## Story

Nation's Restaurant News reported that a Yuma, Arizona farm has been identified as a source for some of the E. coli cases that have impacted foodservice romaine lettuce. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says Harrison Farms greens sickened people in an Alaska correctional facility, but they have yet to determine where the supply chain contamination occurred.

“The agency is examining all possibilities, including that contamination may have occurred at any point along the growing, harvesting, packaging and distribution chain before reaching the Alaska correctional facility where it was served,” the FDA said.

The outbreak has impacted 98 people in 22 states between March 13 and April 20.

Restaurants should continue to monitor their sources for obtaining their lettuce to ensure they are offering customers safe, uncontaminated greens.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Nation's Restaurant News (publication)
- regulation (topic)
- food safety (topic)
- supply chain (topic)
- FDA (regulator)
- outbreak (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-fda-continues-probe-of-tainted-romaine-2706408). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/26f529ea-e8fa-4b17-9aa4-e7d04c9c20aa).