Popeye is not amused:

Federal health officials worked Friday to find the source of a multistate E. coli outbreak and warned consumers that even washing the suspect spinach won't kill the sometimes deadly bacteria.

One person died and dozens of others were sickened in the nine-state outbreak, linked by Food and Drug Administration officials to bagged spinach.

This is one of the downsides of the kind of distribution network we have in the US (and in the rest of the developed world, for that matter): when there's a problem, it's not always obvious where it originated.

I don't buy bagged spinach, but I buy a lot of bagged lettuce, and pre-made salads.