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Article: FDA finds salmonella strain on jalapeno pepper.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2008
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By Lauran Neergaard
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON
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.
Monday's discovery doesn't solve the mystery: Authorities don't know where the pepper became tainted: on the farm, in the plant in McAllen, Texas, or at some stop in between.
Nor are they saying the tainted pepper exonerates tomatoes sold earlier in the spring that consumers until last week had been told were the prime suspect.
Still, "this genetic match is a very ...