Restaurants Try To Calm Customers, Say Their Romaine Is Safe

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Restaurants’ advice to their customers? Romaine calm.
The government is still investigating how romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona, apparently became contaminated with E. coli bacteria. As of Friday, at least 98 people in 22 states have gotten sick, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Growers in Yuma typically plant romaine lettuce between September and January. During the peak of the harvest season, which runs from mid-November u