FLORIDA: Tomato growers fault FDA for losses - (Herald Tribune)
July 1, 2008 – 11:16 pmPalmetto tomato grower and vice president of West Coast Tomato, Bob Spencer, was cited as saying the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is starting to feel a lot like the Federal Emergency Management Agency, stating, “What Katrina did for FEMA this salmonella thing is going to do for the FDA. They are going to have to be much more prudent before ringing the alarm bell.
Though tomatoes have a “strong association” with many of more than 800 salmonella cases across the nation, the FDA has not confirmed that the fruit carries the illness or that tomatoes were the culprit, the agency said late last week. Of more than 1,700 tomato samples collected so far, none has tested positive for the rare Salmonella Saintpaul strain.
The Florida tomato industry has pegged its potential losses from the salmonella issue at $500 million, about the value of a year’s crop.
The FDA had previously cleared some […]
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