Another death related to the E. coli-tainted spinach outbreak was reported Wednesday in Idaho, even as grocers are re-stocking their produce shelves locally.

A toddler from Chubbuck, Idaho, died from kidney failure last week as a result of drinking a spinach smoothie. This brings the number of deaths to three, and about 200 people have been sickened and hospitalized.

There has been another produce recall, this time on lettuce grown in the same region as the tainted spinach. No deaths or illness have been reported, but the irrigation system for the lettuce was found to be infected with E. coli.

Grocery stores in the State College area have taken heed of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warnings.

"On September 21, the FDA and CDC released new guidelines about bagged Spinach. We followed them and took all the bagged spinach products off of our shelves," Tracy Pawelski, a representative from Giant, said, "Now we have begun to restock our shelves with bagged spinach only from Colorado and Canada. We have signs posted letting our customers know about the new products. As of this time we made the decision not to bring back any bagged spinach from California."

Some stores were lucky enough to not even be affected by the bagged spinach E. coli outbreak.

"None of the Weis Markets stores were affected by the E. coli outbreak because we don't carry the product, Dole Organic Packaged Spinach," Dennis Curtin, Weis Markets Spokesman, said.

Weis Markets still took a proactive approach and disposed of any bagged spinach products.

"When the outbreak began, we pulled everything off of our shelves, even the salad bars," Cutin said.

Last week Weis Markets started to put bagged spinach products on their shelves again.

"We put two products up, both of the Weis Quality brand. They contain spinach that was grown on the East Coast and packaged by Pennsylvania farms. Customers should

expect to see it by the weekend," Curtin said.

McLanahan's Student Store, 414 E. College Ave., also listened to the FDA and CDC warnings.

"We pretty much stopped carrying it," produce manager Shogun Tilghman said. "When the warnings came out we took it off of our shelves and trashed it. We even stopped putting spinach on our subs. We are not putting any bagged spinach on our shelves until we are absolutely sure it is safe."

Chobi DebRoy is the director of the Gastroenteric Disease Center at Penn State, and spends her fair share of time working with the E. coli virus.

"We have a very large collection of E. coli strains. There are many out there. We have worked on other outbreaks before, but not this one," DebRoy said. "When an outbreak occurs, we are concerned with finding strains that are pathogenic or not."

Student response to the bagged spinach E. coli outbreak has been mixed.

"I love spinach, but I haven't eaten any of it since the outbreak. Now, since the stores are putting it on the shelves, I might buy some," Shoshana Gitlin (sophomore-biology and environmental studies) said.

Other students are not as concerned about the FDA warnings.

"I really haven't thought about it much. I haven't eaten it any more or any less. The whole deal hasn't bothered me or even been a big issue to me," Marcus Bouchillon (junior-elementary education) said.