Tomatoes Anyone?

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Dear all,

You say tomato, I say tomato.....

May not be pharmacy, but......

I am posting a link to some information regarding the tomato

salmonella outbreak and I am also posting the main highlights of this

article. The article is a photo click read, photo click read type

article. The date of the article is June 18, 08 so the Wed and Friday

referred to are of last week.

Salmonella - News Photos

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Food and Drug Administration has released a list of farming locations,

including Canada, California, and Hawaii, that it believes are safe

from the salmonella outbreak.

Louisiana creole tomatoes harvested in Louisiana are not affected by

the recent salmonella outbreak and are safe to consume, the Food and

Drug Administration said Monday. Cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes,

tomatoes sold with the vine still attached and homegrown tomatoes are

likely not the source of the outbreak, federal officials said.

Also not associated with the outbreak are raw red Roma, red plum and

round red tomatoes from Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, South

Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Belgium, Dominican Republic, Guatemala,

Israel, Netherlands and Puerto Rico.

Mc's, Wal-Mart and other U.S. chains have halted sales of some

raw tomatoes as federal health officials work to trace the source of a

multistate salmonella food poisoning outbreak. The Food and Drug

Administration on Wednesday issued an alert to consumers after a

salmonella outbreak was linked to large uncooked tomatoes in New

Mexico and Texas. Pork belly prices are under pressure as interest in

the BLT, the popular summer bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, could

dip after an outbreak of salmonella poisoning in nine U.S. states,

with illnesses in two of them blamed on eating raw tomatoes.

The US food industry allows the chlorination of its chickens to kill

off bacteria, including salmonella. Veterinary experts from 26 of the

27 EU member states are opposed to poultry washed in chlorine and

support an import ban on US chicken.

An experiment to develop a salmonella vaccine aboard the US space

shuttle Discovery could pave the way for a gush of commercial

biotechnology research in space, NASA and biotech industry officials

said Friday.

Please stay well everyone!

Jeanetta CPhT