No individual salad item or supplier has yet been identified, and PHE is working with environmental health officers in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and B&NES to try to trace the source of the outbreak.
Mike Wade, director of Health Protection for PHE South West said, “We also urge people to remove any loose soil before storing vegetables and thoroughly wash all vegetables, fruit and salad items that will be eaten raw.”
Not quite.
But it’s a good blaming consumers strategy.
No children have been affected to date.