All Tomatoes Cleared of Salmonella Risk, Officials Say »
Posted By Beau7890 2 months, 3 weeks ago in StyleAll types of fresh tomatoes are safe to eat, federal health officials said yesterday, lifting a six-week-old warning that led restaurants to pull them and triggered tens of millions of dollars in losses for the tomato industry.
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Beau78902 months, 3 weeks ago
But other vegetables are not yet in the clear. I wonder why the FDA rushed to warn against tomatoes, causing such a huge loss for the industry.
From the article:
"Officials with the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still do not know the source of the salmonella that set off the largest outbreak of foodborne illness in a decade. They blame raw jalapeno peppers for some of the cases and have dispatched investigators to a pepper packer in Mexico. Last week, they recommended that the elderly, infants and people with compromised immune systems avoid eating jalapenos as well as serrano peppers."
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