GEORGIA tomatoes in limbo amid salmonella scare - (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
June 21, 2008 – 10:44 pmGeorgia farmers are watching the clock tick this weekend as their first harvest of the season closes out with boxes of tomatoes sitting unshipped because of the salmonella scare.
Tomato prices have plunged from about $17 to about $7 for a 25-pound box, according to the Georgia Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association.
“It’s frustrating that the FDA has taken this long to find the source” of the salmonella outbreak, said Bill Brim, a tomato farmer and head of the Growers Association. “And it’s even more frustrating they way the media has played this outbreak up.”
“The FDA did tell us Friday they had a trace back to farms in Florida and Mexico, but, as far as I know, they haven’t gotten here yet,” Florida Department of Agriculture public information director Liz Compton said Saturday.
Compton said the FDA said the source of the salmonella might not be a farm, but could instead “be somewhere […]
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