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Tomato farmers feeling the squeeze
Mexico City :: Mexico | about 1 year ago
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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
Tomato growers uneasy as FDA returns to state
Mexico City :: Mexico | about 1 year ago
Credibility Food and Drug Administration inspectors headed for farms in Florida and Mexico on Friday, as new clues emerged to the possible source of salmonella-tainted tomatoes that have now sickened 552 people. The Food and Drug Admin- istration urges consumers...
Tags: salmonella, tomatoes, tomato, outbreak, Mexico, Florida, FDA, tainted tomatoes
Salmonella outbreak hurts tomato farmers, profits
Mexico City :: Mexico | about 1 year ago
Credibility Tomatoes are coming back to grocery shelves and restaurant menus, but state growers say their immediate prospects still look rotten. Consumers -- spooked by a recent government warning that certain kinds of tomatoes might be linked to salmonella -- have...
Tags: salmonella, tomato, tomatoes, outbreak, Florida, Mexico, salmonella outbreak, executive privilege, White House, Bush
Boston Globe: Tainted tomato outbreak hits Mass.
Plymouth :: MA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility State public health officials said today that 12 recent cases of salmonella reported in the state have been linked to a nationwide outbreak. The Department of Public Health said it had used DNA matching techniques to determine that the Massachusetts cases...
Tags: salmonella, tomatoes, El Paso County, red tomatoes
Tomato growers feel effects of salmonella outbreak
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Florida tomato growers are feeling the effects of the recent salmonella outbreak with fields of tomatoes still to be picked. The Food and Drug Administration has said that parts of Mexico and Florida are the most likely sources of the contamination because...
Tags: tomato, tomatoes, outbreak, Florida, Mexico, salmonella outbreak, tainted tomatoes, Food and Drug Administration, FDA, health officials
First Long Island case of salmonella linked to tomatoes
West Babylon :: NY :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility EDT, June 18, 2008 A West Babylon man has become the first Long Island case in a salmonella outbreak linked to uncooked tomatoes that has sickened 383 people in 30 states. Federal health officials yesterday announced they had learned of 106 more cases...
Tags: salmonella, tomatoes, tomato, outbreak
Salmonella outbreak in Madison County could be linked to tomatoes
Wood River :: IL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Seven cases of salmonella have been reported to the health deparment since June 4. In those cases, six people reported eating at Los Tres Amigos, 1820 Vaughn Road in Wood River. Madison County Public Health Administrator Toni Corona said the restraurant...
Tags: salmonella, outbreak, tomatoes, tomato, Madison County
Salmonella cases from tomatoes jump to 383
Chicago :: IL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Federal health officials have learned of 106 more cases of salmonella linked to tainted tomatoes, putting the outbreak's toll at 383 on Wednesday and counting. "We do not think the outbreak is over," said Dr. Robert Tauxe of the Centers for Disease Control...
Tags: salmonella, tomatoes, tainted tomatoes, salmonella linked, Adobo Grill, U.S, disease control, salmonella outbreak, salmonella cases, Food and Drug Administration
BUSINESS NOTES
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Tomatoes are coming back on the menus at Yum Brands' restaurants. The Louisville-based fast-food company says it's starting to resupply its restaurants with tomatoes from areas that have been cleared of salmonella risk by federal health officials. Yum...
Tags: tomatoes
City Room: 6 New Tainted Tomato Cases
Mexico City :: Mexico | about 1 year ago
Credibility Stephen Morton/Getty Images) Six new cases of an unusual form of salmonella linked to eating raw tomatoes have been confirmed in New York City, in addition to a previously known case, the city’s Health Department. According to the Food and Drug Administration,...
Tags: salmonella, tomato, tomatoes, outbreak
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