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| CONVERSATIONS
Nicols FoxInvestigating a Food Supply Gone Haywire
by Jim Motavalli
Like a lot of other Americans, journalist Nicols Fox, a former editor at the Washington Journalism Review and a correspondent for The Economist, first heard about the deadly E. coli O157:H7 bacteria in 1993. That was the year it attacked a group of Northwestern children, all of whom had eaten hamburgers at area Jack in the Box restaurants. Four of them died.
Originally an art critic, Fox found herself increasingly drawn into the E. coli case. "At first I thought Jack in the Box was just an anomaly," she says, "but after checking with the Centers for Disease Control, I found that it wasn't just isolated on the west coast--it was happening all over. Here was a fascinating story, a new bacterium that had somehow gotten into the food supply. Finding out how that happened became my obsession."
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