What to do if your water is contaminated with E. coli The Food Standards Agency (FSA) says it is “confident” an E.coli outbreak that has affected more than 200 people in the UK came from lettuce leaves.
An investigation is currently ongoing to determine the original source though, while multiple supermarkets have withdrawn potentially contaminated foods from shelves. According to the latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), there were a further 98 confirmed cases of shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) in the UK as of June 11.
This brings the total number of cases to 211. Among 160 of those cases, 42 percent were hospitalised as a result of their symptoms, which can include “severe” bloody diarrhoea and vomiting. More than 60 food products such as sandwiches, wraps and salads were pulled from shelves in line with the outbreak.
READ MORE Symptoms of e-coli as dozens of supermarket sandwiches and wraps recalled It is believed contaminated lettuce leaves are to blame for a recent outbreak of E.coli (Image: Getty Images) Food companies Samworth Brothers Manton Wood, Greencore Group and THIS! issued a “precautionary” recall of certain foods . In a response to Express.
co.uk , the FSA said it was “confident” the source of the outbreak was linked to lettuce leaves. However, they added that it is “too early to determine the outbreak of the cause”, and that this was part of a “complex and ongoing” investigation.
Darren Whitby, head of incidents at .
