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A disease outbreak 20 years ago led to better food safety

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By Amy Mayer Verified
| KAZU-FM (Pacific Grove, CA) Verified
The Salinas Valley grows most of the leafy greens consumed across the country each summer. But it has not been named as a source of the lettuce currently implicated in a an outbreak of cyclosporiasis After a 2006 E. coli outbreak from spinach, California growers decided to ramp up their food safety protocols. Now, a state program requires documentation of crops as they’re moved. Richard Smith recently retired as a UC Cooperative Extension vegetable advisor.
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Santa Cruz plans more work on West Cliff, illness outbreak could hit local economy

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By Erin Malsbury, Amy Mayer Verified
| KAZU-FM (Pacific Grove, CA) Verified
In today's newscast: More coastal erosion The city of Santa Cruz has posted yellow development notices along parts of West Cliff Drive. City engineer Kevin Crossley says the posted permit notices are both for some completed emergency repairs and a future road re-alignment near Lighthouse Field. "About six hundred feet of the roadway is gonna be moved inland," he said. That construction is planned for next year.
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Women's survey in Monterey County, California avocado growers push for trade changes

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By Amy Mayer Verified
| KAZU-FM (Pacific Grove, CA) Verified
In today's newscast: Monterey County’s annual survey of women is underway. It aims to identify the top concerns for roughly half the county’s population—things like domestic violence. Adriana Narez-Tapia, with the county social services department, says a significant number of respondents in one year’s survey said domestic violence affected them. "Services were decreasing, and our funding was going down," she said, "for those services.
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