Is it safe to eat romaine lettuce from Salinas again? CDC says E. coli scare 'appears to be over'

After nearly three months, the romaine lettuce outbreak "appears to be over," federal health officials announced Wednesday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an updated food safety report that it is "no longer advising that people avoid romaine lettuce from the Salinas Valley growing region in California."

Since Nov. 22, the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration...