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Acknowledgments
The author thanks representatives of the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service for
providing data collected for the “Microbial Data Program,” M. Jay-Russell for source
information regarding
E. coli
O157:H7 leafy vegetable outbreaks, and his colleagues
and collaborators in USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension
Service (CSREES), Epidemiological Approaches to Food Safety Program, projects
2006 - 01240 and 2007 - 02029.
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