Bill Marler

And most of the E. coli cases that we see now are leafy greens, romaine lettuce.

That's kept us, unfortunately, really busy.

This pathogen, E. coli 0157, has become an environmental pathogen.

It is in the environment, and you see it in outbreaks linked to romaine lettuce and sprouts and even flour.

And we seldom have E. coli outbreaks linked to hamburger.

We seldom have recalls

of hamburger-linked E. coli, they just don't happen.

And, you know, it's one of those rare instances where, you know, humans saw a disaster, did something about it, and it actually has turned out better than you could have expected.