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By The Associated Press

The FDA says its OK to eat tomatoes again. Stores and restaurants across the country stopped selling tomatoes because of a salmonella scare. Tomatoes Safe To Eat Again

Published: Thu, July 17, 2008 - 5:09 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government has declared it's OK to
eat tomatoes again, lifting its salmonella warning amid signs that
the outbreak - while not over - may finally be slowing.
Officials reiterated earlier warnings that the people most at
risk of salmonella should avoid hot peppers - jalapenos and
serranos.
The government still doesn't know just what caused the
salmonella outbreak, and Thursday's move doesn't mean tomatoes are
cleared. Early on, there was good evidence linking them to the
sick, but it's unlikely that any field where tomatoes were
harvested in April and May still is in production.

But among later illnesses, there seems to be more evidence
against peppers. The FDA is sending inspectors to Mexico to
investigate a packing house that receives peppers from a number of
farms.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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carl Says:

Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:20 pm

They’ve had the practice of using sewage in Mexico and South America for fertilizer for a long time. And they say don’t drink the water ? If that company rep. doesn’t mind using human sewage on his veggies then feed Claycitymadness a few tomatoes and point him to the rows needing fertilizing.

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claycitymadness Says:

Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:30 pm

they have really NEVER been safe for me to eat they gove me the trots but there was an interesting story earlier in the week about more hazards of spraying sewage as fertilizer, the presence of heavy metals like MERCURY and pharmaceuticals being sprayed on food right here in grand bay. the company rep explained ut away saying they were absorbed by the crops so it wasnt bad for the soil after all. excuse me who eats the crops?

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rosepetal Says:

Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:42 pm

cork, that is really scarey. if true and i have no doubt it is we need to change laws real quick.

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cork Says:

Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:40 pm

Wake up. We all know that salmonella does not exist in the ground. They never said where and why this happened. But, if raw sewage from sewage companies is disbursed as fertilizer to crops and those crops are removed from the ground before the earth has time to compost then you get salmonella. This practice is happening all over the US, it’s cheap for the farmers and cheap for the sewage companies, but costly to your health. Even though it’s against the law to remove crops for 1 year after raw sewage is placed, it’s still happening. A farmer in Atlanta had a sewage company placed raw sewage on his hay fields for fertilizer, removed the hay, fed his cows and over 200 head died from salmonella. We need better laws.

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BamaBob Says:

Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:32 pm

This is good news for BLT’s every where! Unless it might be the B or the L or the bread or the mayo or the hands that made the BLT…...
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This just too much to deal with! Just give me a well done steak and hold the salad!