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FDA finds contaminated serrano peppers in Mexico
Mexico City :: Mexico | about 1 year ago
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And, now the latest target is serrano peppers in Mexico. “confirmed that both a sample of serrano pepper and a sample of irrigation water” collected from a farm in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, contain the same Salmonella Saintpaul that has sickened 1,300 people...
Tags: salmonella, tomatoes, Mexico, salmonella outbreak, FDA, House of Representatives, U.S, Charles Bronson, serrano peppers, food safety
Putting the squeeze on produce to kill germs
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility At a Virginia Tech laboratory this summer, food scientists subjected small grape tomatoes to what's called "high pressure processing" to see if they could squeeze salmonella to death...The question is how to kill the bugs without smushing the food they're...
Tags: salmonella, tomatoes
Jalapeno scare causes concern for growers, sellers
Mexico City :: Mexico | about 1 year ago
Credibility Smith jsmith@henryherald.com On the heels of a tomato recall in the United States, local farmers and merchants are reacting to the news another type of produce may be contaminated...Food and Drug Administration Monday required the recall of all jalapeno...
Tags: salmonella, outbreak, tomato, tomatoes, FDA, salmonella outbreak, Mexico, jalapenos peppers, Food and Drug Administration, serrano peppers
Florida growers want compensation for tomato scare
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Florida tomato growers want compensation from the federal government for millions of dollars lost because of an investigation that originally focused on raw tomatoes after a salmonella outbreak in parts of the country. Florida Agriculture Commissioner...
Tags: salmonella, tomatoes, tomatoes growers, growers want, want compensation
A hot (pepper) lead in hunt for salmonella source
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility People suddenly were getting salmonella at a Minnesota restaurant more than 1,000 miles from the center of the nation's outbreak...He'd switched his supply to government-cleared fresh tomatoes and even canned ones. But a lot of his menu items had a raw...
Tags: salmonella, tomatoes, tomato, outbreak
FDA: Jalapeno peppers test positive for salmonella
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Food and Drug Administration has found jalapeno pepper grown in Mexico and processed in Texas tested positive for the strain of salmonella linked to an ongoing nationwide outbreak, health officials said on Monday. The pepper, which showed up at a...
Tags: salmonella, tomatoes, FDA, Texas, jalapenos peppers, Mexico City, salmonella outbreak, McAllen Produce Terminal Markets, Food and Drug Administration, jalapeño peppers
FDA finds salmonella strain in jalapeno pepper
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Sanchez and Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers July 22, 2008 Fresh jalapeno peppers joined tomatoes as possible culprits in the nationwide Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak that has sickened thousands of people and killed two since April, the federal...
Tags: salmonella, outbreak, tomatoes, tomato, jalapenos peppers, Texas, FDA, grown jalapenos, salmonella strain
FDA finds salmonella strain in jalapeno pepper
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Government inspectors finally have a big clue in the nationwide salmonella outbreak: They found the same bacteria on a single Mexican-grown jalapeno pepper handled by a small Texas produce shipper...Nor are they saying the tainted pepper exonerates tomatoes...
Tags: salmonella, fda, tomatoes, South Texas, FDA Finds Salmonella, salmonella outbreak, salmonella strain, McAllen, jalapenos pepper, federal health
Health scare hurting growers
Richmond :: VA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The 6,000 acres of tomatoes grown on Virginia's sea-swept Eastern Shore were never implicated in the national salmonella outbreak -- they were still on the vine weeks after people started getting sick. Still, that hasn't made much difference to tomato...
Tags: outbreak, tomato, salmonella, tomatoes, health
Chicago Tribune: FDA gives all-clear on tomatoes, not peppers
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Food and Drug Administration declared on Thursday that it is again safe to eat all tomatoes now on sale in the U.S., canceling its warning in June that some tomatoes were the cause of a still-unsolved outbreak of salmonella poisoning. At the same...
Tags: tomatoes, tomato, salmonella, outbreak, FDA
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