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  OUTBREAK PREVENTION ; New Produce Safety Rules Aim to Reduce Foodborne Illness
  By Jalonick, Mary Clare
  WASHINGTON - New produce safety rules from the government Friday are intended to help prevent the kind of large-scale outbreaks of foodborne illness that occurred over the past decade linked to fresh spinach, cantaloupes, cucumbers and other foods. Under the rules, the government soon will have new oversight of the farms that grow Americans' food. That means, for example, making sure workers are trained to wash their hands, irrigation water is monitored for harmful bacteria and animals do not leave droppings in fields.
  The rules are new territory for the agency, which has never before had such broad authority to oversee how food is grown on farms. …