San Luis Valley farms going through preventive e-coli inspections

SAN LUIS VALLEY, COLORADO -- Federal officials are expected to join state agricultural and state health officials in the San Luis Valley on Wednesday to inspect vegetable farms. Dole's Hearts Delight is grown throughout the United States and Canada and is processed in Ohio and is currently under a recall due to e-coli issues.

Its main farms are located in California, Ohio, and Colorado's San Luis Valley. The area is known for its rich soil and the government is basically doing a checkup to see if it is affected by the e-coli issue. Colorado's deputy commissioner of agriculture said, ""We don't know where the contamination came from..." so they have to check everywhere. Farmers are concerned even though they doubt there was any issue with their San Luis Valley farms, it still reduces sales. David Petrocco, from a farming family, comments: "It's concerning to us, because last year's spinach recall affected our sales even though it (the contaminated spinach) didn't come from Colorado at all."