Critics say it's evidence of a system that is broken and desperately in need of an overhaul. ''The bottom line is this is not working,'' said Carl Nielsen, a 28-year veteran of the FDA and former director of import inspections. ``There have to be radical...
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Smith jsmith@henryherald.com On the heels of a tomato recall in the United States, local farmers and merchants are reacting to the news another type of produce may be contaminated...Food and Drug Administration Monday required the recall of all jalapeno...
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All raw jalapeno peppers and all products that contain raw jalapenos have been pulled from area Dierbergs and Shop and Save stores. The Food and Drug Administration is asking that everyone avoid eating jalapeno peppers in order to prevent additional cases...
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Food and Drug Administration has found jalapeno pepper grown in Mexico and processed in Texas tested positive for the strain of salmonella linked to an ongoing nationwide outbreak, health officials said on Monday. The pepper, which showed up at a...
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AP NPR.org , July 17, 2008 · 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...
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It's been the summer of the great tomato scare, and it's not been pretty...Weeks of wondering if a chilled tomato-cucumber-cilantro mixture is a death sentence...More than 1,000 people in 41 states and Washington, D.C., have gotten sick from a multi-state...
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Three common ingredients now are suspects in the salmonella poisonings that have become the nation's largest foodborne outbreak in at least a decade...Seven weeks into their investigation, federal health officials aren't shortening the list of potential...
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Fresh, raw jalapeño peppers have been linked to the salmonella saintpaul outbreak, and the young, the elderly and those with impaired immune systems should avoid eating them, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today. And healthy people...
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Investigators who spent nearly a month searching for the cause of a salmonella outbreak in tomatoes are now holding and testing shipments of imported jalapenos at the Mexican border in hopes of finding the outbreak strain. Officials from the Food and...
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Cilantro, Serrano peppers and jalapenos are among the types of fresh produce Food and Drug Administration investigators are checking in addition to tomatoes as they continue searching for the cause of a salmonella outbreak. The government on Saturday...
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