NBC4 has the word that several area grocers, including Giant and Wegman’s, are making preparations to begin stocking fresh spinach again.

The supermarkets will have signs telling customers where the spinach comes from.

Both chains said they get their spinach from Canada and Colorado. It’s the spinach from California, where the E. coli problem is believed to have started.

There’s probably no issue that breeds more hysteria in the U.S. than reports of food contamination — the odds that any one person will be infected with E. coli from spinach at this point are extremely low. But that, along with a concerted effort on the part of grocers to inform their customers about the safety of the spinach they’ll be selling now, may not be enough to get people buying spinach again for some time to come.

Will you buy spinach from a local grocery store this week?