E. coli outbreak could be criminal

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: October 5, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

In a startling twist to the E. coli outbreak that has frustrated federal and state investigators, agents for the FBI and FDA on Wednesday executed two search warrants on two Salinas area companies, saying they were looking for evidence of a crime.

The two companies were Growers Express of Salinas and Natural Selection Foods of San Juan Bautista -- the company whose bagged spinach is at the center of the outbreak. It was unclear how Growers Express -- which grows and packs produce in the western United States and Latin America -- fits into the probe.

An FBI spokesman said its agents had been

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