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In the seven years since an E. coli outbreak caused by contaminated bagged spinach from Central California left five dead and 103 hospitalized, retailers and other large buyers have forced Salinas Valley farmers to rip out wildlife habitat, fence fields, poison rodents and scrape away native vegetation - all in the name of food safety. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A consumer group accused manufacturers of chlorine-detecting pool chemicals of violating state law by failing to disclose a cancer-causing ingredient, but an Alameda County judge dismissed their lawsuit because it failed to precisely identify the actual ingredient - which is also on the state's list of carcinogens. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]