Learn if cooking carrots can kill E. coli and how to stay safe amid the outbreak linked to Grimmway Farms’ recalled organic carrots.

One person has died and at least 39 others have been made ill by E. coli infections linked to organic carrots sold by several large grocery retailers in 18 states, U.S. health officials say. The carrots were also shipped to stores in Canada and Puerto Rico.

A California-based produce company is at the center of an ongoing recall after the grower announced its organic whole and baby carrots were potentially contaminated with E. coli. Grimmway Farms,