Popeye and spinach
It isn’t even a major item at the CNN Health pages, but in the rest of the US this is headline news: Killer Spinach!

• FDA warns consumers not to eat any fresh spinach
• Number of people sickened by E. coli on spinach now at 111
• Recall expanded Sunday night to three more brands

That does even floor you, Popeye! Doesn´t it?!

Sources: CNN, USAtoday and (as always ;-) ) Wikipedia

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