Christine Bruhn

UC Davis' Center for Consumer Research

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Director of the Center for Consumer Research at the University of California, Davis

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German health officials said today that the deadliest E. coli outbreak in recorded history did not start with vegetable sprouts from an organic farm in northern Germany after all.

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German health officials said today that the deadliest E. coli outbreak in recorded history did not start with vegetable sprouts from an organic farm in northern Germany after all.

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