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Been quite a few months for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. First they said tomatoes were the source of a widespread salmonella poisoning. Then they said it was tomatoes and jalapeno peppers.
Then yesterday they revised their statement:
FDA: Avoid jalapenos from Mexico, not US
WASHINGTON — Only jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico are implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, the government announced Friday in clearing the U.S. crop.
The Food and Drug Administration urged consumers to avoid raw Mexican jalapenos and the serrano peppers often confused with them, or dishes made with them such as fresh salsa.
But the big question is how those who love hot peppers would know where the chiles came from, especially in restaurant food.
“You’re going to have to ask the person you’re buying it from,” said Dr. David Acheson, the FDA’s food safety chief, who is advising restaurants and grocery stores to know their suppliers and pass that information to customers.
The big break in an outbreak that now has sickened nearly 1,300 people came on Monday, when FDA announced it had found the same strain of salmonella responsible for the outbreak on a single Mexican-grown jalapeno in a south Texas produce warehouse.
Tomatoes had been the prime suspect for weeks. And while those now on the market are considered safe to eat, health officials still haven’t exonerated them from causing illnesses when the outbreak began in April.
The pepper discovery threatened to paralyze that industry, too. Chile production is a $500 million crop in New Mexico alone, which produces most of the U.S. crop, state agriculture commissioners wrote the FDA on Thursday.
Florida tomato growers are… how to say in English… pissed.
So, to recap in pictograph form :
June 4, 2008
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