Mexican farm pegged as source of U.S. salmonella cases - (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
July 31, 2008 – 6:41 pmWashington — The outbreak of salmonella poisoning that sickened more than 1,300 people across the country and cost American tomato growers more than $300 million has been traced to irrigation water and peppers grown on a farm in Mexico, federal officials said Wednesday. But they refused to completely clear tomatoes as carriers of the bacteria.
“Now we have a smoking gun, it appears,” said Lonnie King, who directs investigations of food-borne illnesses at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
David Acheson, the head of food safety at the Food and Drug Administration, said the strain of salmonella Saintpaul that caused the nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and serrano peppers on a Mexican farm. Earlier, a single contaminated jalapeno pepper had been traced to the Mexican grower.
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