US: More markets, restaurants pull tomatoes - (USA Today)
June 10, 2008 – 6:53 pmAs the Food and Drug Administration scrambles to find the source of a 17-state outbreak of salmonellosis linked to raw tomatoes, stores and restaurants nationwide are pulling implicated varieties from shelves and menus.
Sliced tomatoes disappeared from McDonald’s (MCD) sandwiches, and fresh tomato salsa from Taco Bell. Produce distributors scrambled to source tomatoes from the list of states and countries had declared safe, but most stores simply removed the three implicated varieties Roma, plum and red round off shelves and menus.
Washing tomatoes can help, but it won’t necessarily remove the salmonella bacteria, which sometimes gets inside the fruit.
Amy Philpott of the United Fresh Produce Association in Washington, D.C. was quoted as saying, “Tomatoes are just piling up in the storage rooms, they aren’t shipping, people aren’t selling them,” and that the unsold fruit will likely be sent to landfills, “especially the volumes that we could be looking at in […]
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