"traced to"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/6/2011 05:00 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:

>Atlantic City Press, Monday, June 6, 2011, page A3
>"E. coli traced back to organic farm"
>AP dispatch by Kirsten Grieshaber and Tomislav Skaro
>
>"Preliminary tests found that bean sprouts and other sprout
>varieties from the farm in the Uelzen area could be traced to
>infections in five German states"
>
>I would have written "infections...could be traced back to the farm"
>and the headline writer appears to have agreed with me.

So would I.  But "tracked [followed] to infections" would work.

Joel

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