A story retold

The Contra Costa Times does a good job with this feature that goes from farm to fork with the story of a Wisconsin woman who was one of the first ones sickened by the E. coli outbreak. Stories like those of Lisa Brott - the formerly spinach-loving 50-year old Milwaukee woman who endured hospitalization and racked up $150,000 in bills during the course of her illness - pack a wallop and will be perhaps the most effective agents of change during the debate about food safety over the next few months.
Meanwhile, The State, a South Carolina newspaper, argues here for a single food safety agency in an editorial.