CDC/CalFERT Spinach Timeline

  • Contaminated Spinach harvested at Paicines

  • P227A-coded spinach production

  • Period: to

    P227A shipped from NSF to Marina/Springfield

  • First date of illness onset

    By person who recently consumed fresh spinach
  • Period: to

    First patient becomes ill

    Upper bound
  • Period: to

    Patient stool collected

    Upper bound
  • Period: to

    E. coli O157 identified

  • Period: to

    Post-Spike Patient gets sick

  • Period: to

    First patient confirm PFGE match to strain

  • Period: to

    Post-Spike Patient stool collected

  • Period: to

    Post-Spike E. Coli identified

  • Period: to

    Post-spike PFGE confirmation

  • PFGE matches confirmed across states

  • Bagged spinach confirmed to be cause of outbreak

  • FDA Press Release about E. coli in Spinach

  • NSF Recall

  • NSF South Facility Final Production Day