Monterey County, California’s, Agricultural Field Toilet Inspection Program requires clean toilets, hand-washing stations and drinking water for Monterey County’s workers, enforcing long-standing state laws with new resolve.

The increased inspections are meant to encourage good hygiene among workers and to prevent crops from being contaminated.

Lourdes Bosquez, Salinas office supervisor of Consumer Health Protection Services, said,

"We used to do this in the ’80s and ’90s. Now, with the E. coli outbreaks, we thought it was important that we brought the program back."

Farmers will need Health Department permits for their field toilets by Jan. 1.

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