Salmonella probe adds foods served with tomatoes

[Terri]

By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press
July 2, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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 mum on exactly what other vegetables are getting tracked.

Items commonly served with fresh tomatoes is the only hint Food and Drug Administration food safety chief Dr. David Acheson would give, calling it "irresponsible" to point a finger until he has more evidence that some other food really deserves the extra scrutiny.

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[makamends]

Interesting. The investigation seemed to be going so well. The evidence suggested the source was produce picked by Florida's militant migrants or produce grown in Mexico. Next we're told that the Florida produce was also packed in Mexico. Now a Minneapolis health reporter teams with a reporter from the LA Times Mexican bureau to let us know it must be another source which must remain secret.

[Amawalk John]

You can use those tomatoes at the Obama parade, Terri.

[clovers]

Perhaps I'm tempting fate, but I've been buying fresh tomatoes at the Paterson Farmer's Market for months, and eating them without suffering ill-effects. Of course, as with any fresh produce, I wash the item thoroughly before eating it. There may be some people who fail to take that simple precaution, which may partially explain the outbreak of salmonella.


LT

[schillerbjr]

Typical "drive-by" media reporting. Spray bullets
of "gloom and doom" and drive off to get the next victim!