Bronson announces FLORIDA tomatoes deemed safe by FDA - (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services)
June 10, 2008 – 6:54 pmTALLAHASSEE — Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson has announced that tomatoes currently being harvested in Florida have been deemed safe by the Food and Drug Administration and has been added to the agencys list of states with safe to eat tomatoes. FDAs website is updated in the evening and will reflect the change.
Florida tomato growers have one of the most stringent tomato production programs in the nation. They initiated the heightened safety standards several years ago to ensure public confidence in their product.
After reviewing Floridas safety initiative, the timing of the illness outbreak and the timing of tomato harvesting, FDA added Floridas current production areas to the safe to eat list. Growers will provide a certificate with each shipment verifying the tomatoes are from Florida. Bronson points out that the tomatoes that are now being harvested and shipped from Florida did not even exist when the […]
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