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Article: Bad tomatoes linked to farms; Several operations in Florida, Mexico produced some of the tainted food.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2008
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Byline: TIFFANY HSU - Los Angeles Times
Several farms in Florida and Mexico appear to have produced at least some of the tomatoes implicated in what is shaping up to be the country's largest tomato-borne salmonella outbreak, federal health officials said Friday.
But the search for the source continues, said David Acheson, the Food and Drug Administration's associate commissioner for foods, in a conference call. The number of victims increased to 552, making this outbreak one of the most extensive of the country's 13 tomato-borne salmonella episodes.
Acheson cautioned that the affected Roma, plum and red round tomatoes were not necessarily ...