 Certain state programs have been criticized for undue leniency to bad practices.However, other state food safety programs supplement, rather than replace, Federal inspections, generally with the goal of increasing consumer confidence in the state's produce.For example, state health departments have a role in investigating outbreaks of food-borne disease bacteria, as in the case of the 2006 outbreak of (a pathogenic strain of the ordinarily harmless bacteria, "E. coli") from processed spinach.