Tainted Tomatoes
June 10th, 2008 by flanewsThe Food and Drug administration is placing Florida�s tomatoes on the safe-to-eat-list. Until this afternoon the FDA was telling consumers to stay away from tomatoes grown in Florida, after a salmonella outbreak in 16 other states made 145 people sick. The outbreak killed a Texas man. Tomatoes remained banned in most of the country. State Agriculture Department spokeswoman Liz Compton said no one has gotten sick from Florida grown tomatoes.
�We�ve had zero illnesses in Florida. We also sell along the Eastern seaboard and we have not see illnesses in that area. The illnesses are in Western states,� said Compton.
Florida farmers produce 36 percent of the nation�s tomatoes.
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