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Food safety investigators have concluded that a Kern County farm is responsible for an e. coli outbreak in late 2006 that sickened more than 80 people in Iowa and Minnesota. Tainted lettuce served by Taco John’s locations in Iowa and Minnesota was grown at the Wegis Ranch in Buttonwillow, according to a report on the outbreak released last week. More than 80 people in both midwestern states reported becoming sick and at least 26 were hospitalized with e. coli infections after eating the lettuce. Of the five farms that grew lettuce served at Taco John's, positive samples of e. coli were only found at Wegis Ranch, according to the report. Positive samples were also found by investigators at two dairies next to Wegis Ranch. Samples from Wegis Ranch and the two dairies genetically matched the strain found in the Taco John’s lettuce. The two neighboring dairies are Maya and West Star North. The report does not definitively state how the lettuce at Wegis Ranch became...
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