Romaine lettuce warning in Ontario and Quebec over E.coli
![A lettuce worker washes romaine lettuce in Salinas, Calif,. Thursday, Aug. 26, 2007. Government regulators never acted on calls for stepped-up inspections of leafy greens after last year's deadly E. coli spinach outbreak, leaving the safety of America's salads to a patchwork of largely unenforceable rules and the industry itself, an Associated Press investigation has found. Salad Safety](https://i.cbc.ca/1.4781175.1533927364!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_460/salad-safety.jpg)
The strain of E. coli bacteria that has prompted the Public Health Agency of Canada to warn people not to eat romaine lettuce in Ontario and Quebec is the same one that caused a similar outbreak last year. Eighteen cases of bacterial infection have been confirmed in Canada since October.