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Press Release: EPA Must Limit Factory Farm Animal Waste Bacteria
E. coli-Tainted Spinach Illustrates Need for Tougher Safeguards
Oct 25, 2006

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Three top national organizations working to safeguard the country's food and water supplies warn that bacterial pollution from livestock and poultry factory farms poses a major threat to public health. The warning from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project comes in the wake of a highly publicized E. coli outbreak from California-grown spinach.

 

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