Mohr, Belinda Acuna - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
This article quantifies the effect of the 2006 food-borne illness spinach outbreak on harvested acreage for the fresh … spinach market. In September 2006, fresh spinach contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 caused hundreds of consumer illnesses … across the U.S. and a few deaths. The outbreak was detrimental to the spinach industry causing a significant decrease in the …