E. coli traced to Hawaii lettuce

K-State's Food Safety Network links to this story about a months long investigation in Hawaii. From the Honolulu Advertiser:

State health officials conducted a months-long investigation to find the cause of an E. coli bacterial infection that hospitalized four tourists and sickened four others on Kaua'i in March.
Their conclusion: All eight people were most likely infected by eating contaminated lettuce from a Kaua'i farm, where heavy rains and flooding had carried E. coli bacteria from a cattle pasture onto the lettuce patch.
Officials declined to name the farm they suspect was the source of the lettuce.
The state Department of Health said that the eight victims, including the four who required hospital care, have recovered without complications from the outbreak of a strain of E. coli O157, whose symptoms include abdominal cramps and bloody diarrhea and which in severe cases can cause kidney failure.

TK: There may be lessons to learn from this outbreak that can be applied in careful measure to Good Agricultural Practices in the future, but there is apparently nothing here that would have an immense market impact nationwide.