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Local Tomato Sales Stay Brisk Amid Salmonella Outbreak
Myrtle Beach :: SC :: USA | about 1 year ago
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Wilson While the Food and Drug Administration expands its scope of the nation�s salmonella outbreak beyond tomatoes, area farmers said business continues to be brisk for homegrown tomatoes. ``I can hardly keep my tomatoes,�� said Wanda Bellamy,...
Tags: tomatoes, salmonella
Salmonella probe adds foods served with tomatoes
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Adding to tomato confusion, the government is about to start testing numerous other types of fresh produce in the hunt for the source of the nation's record salmonella outbreak - even as it insists tomatoes remain the leading suspect. Investigators are...
Tags: tomatoes, salmonella outbreak, Dr. David Acheson, Food and Drug Administration, health officials, disease control, fresh produced, federal government, FDA
Farmers, Growers Demand Answers About Salmonella
It has been more than 11 weeks since the salmonella outbreak was first reported but there are still very few answers if any. Growers, distributers and others in the food industry are loosing millions as people continue to avoid the crop. The FDA...
Tags: salmonella, tomatoes, tomato, FDA, food industry, outbreak
Rotten Tomatoes Still Out There
Two weeks after the FDA first warned consumers about the risk, it reports that some bad tomatoes may still be out there on the shelves. The tomatoes are believed to be carrying a rare form of salmonella and over 800 have already been impacted. As part...
Tags: tomatoes, salmonella, FDA, health, disease
NBC 8 Lancaster (WGAL): Gov't Rechecking Cause Of Salmonella Outbreak
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility As salmonella cases continue to climb, the government is checking if tainted tomatoes really are to blame for the record outbreak -- or if the problem is with another ingredient, or a warehouse that is contaminating newly harvested tomatoes. Federal health...
Tags: tomatoes, food safety
US checks if tomatoes caused Salmonella outbreak
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility As salmonella cases continue to climb, the government is checking if tainted tomatoes really are to blame for the record outbreak - or if the problem is with another ingredient, or a warehouse that is contaminating newly harvested tomatoes. Federal health...
Tags: tomatoes, federal health, salmonella outbreak, health officials, clearing tomatoes, evidence clearing
Yakima salmonella outbreak blamed on tomatoes
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Meanwhile, officials are still waiting to learn the final results of another 14 salmonella cases reported in Yakima County since mid-May. All three confirmed cases in Yakima County involved people who became ill from the bacteria Salmonella Saintpaul,...
Tags: salmonella, tomatoes, tomato, outbreak, Yakima County, tainted tomatoes, Salmonella Saintpaul, salmonella cases
Tomatoes sicken two more Tennesseans
Nashville :: TN :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Including the two new cases in Wilson and Carroll counties, a total of six Tennesseans have been infected. Officials with the Tennessee Department of Health aren't releasing any additional information about the two new cases. Federal officials have not...
With tomato alert on, farmers say try local
Austin :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Tom Reynolds, the owner of Hideaway Farm on Cockeys Mill Road in Reisterstown, has been growing tomatoes this season in two hothouses and in his fields. He said that his tomatoes, as well as the tomatoes of other local farmers he knows, are safe to eat....
Tags: tomatoes, tomato, salmonella, outbreak
Tomato farmers feeling the squeeze
Mexico City :: Mexico | about 1 year ago
Credibility Tomato sales are said to be down as much as 60 percent, and Florida growers are worried that there is no definitive rebound in sight...Production : Florida growers harvest about 39,000 acres of tomatoes for the fresh market...Florida ships about 1.3 billion...
Tags: tomato, tomatoes, salmonella, outbreak, U.S, Florida, Mexico, Michael Leavitt
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