E. coli outbreak came after warning
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060918/ap_on_he_me/tainted_spinach"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060916/capt.46010cc4905b4328ba41842564245f89.tainted_spinach_cams106.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=NyjP3.frTi01HuzV6pMqtQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Unidentified crops are seen across the street from the Earthbound Farm/Natural Selection Foods plant in San Juan Bautista, Calif. on Friday, Sept. 15, 2006. The 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. The crops pictured are not those in question. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)" border="0" /></a>AP - Federal health officials told California farmers to improve produce safety in a pointed warning letter last November, nearly a year before the multistate E. coli outbreak linked to spinach.</p><br clear="all"/>