Tainted spinach traced to California
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060916/ap_on_he_me/tainted_spinach"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060915/capt.55d4eb623e3243b4944ad7683f9abf97.tainted_spinach_fx105.jpg?x=85&y=130&sig=cQCcAwK_tmWeCaTmEj9l8g--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="A sign informing customers that fresh spinach has been removed is shown as produce worker Pete Kettell stocks packaged salad mixes at Mollie Stone's Tower Market in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 15, 2006. With at least one dead and dozens sickened across 10 states, health officials focused on California as the likely source of spinach contaminated by E. coli as grocers cleared the vegetable from their shelves. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - A California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others. Supermarkets across the country pulled spinach from shelves, and consumers tossed out the leafy green.</p><br clear="all"/>