Green | June 07, 2008 | 6 comments

Tomato salmonella illnesses spread to 16 states

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080607/ap_on_he_me/salmonella_tomatoes;_ylt=Ao9W2RU6wPx3XlQN_YO...

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Salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has spread to 16 states, federal health officials said Saturday.

Investigations by the Texas and New Mexico Departments of Health and the U.S. Indian Health Service have tied 56 cases in Texas and 55 in New Mexico to raw, uncooked, tomatoes.

"We're seeing a steady increase," Deborah Busemeyer, New Mexico Department of Health communications director, said Saturday.

An additional 50 people have been sickened by the same Salmonella "Saintpaul" infection in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
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6 comments // Tomato salmonella illnesses spread to 16 states

  • Julie_Soller
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      Julie_Soller  

    • JohnA, it's actually the irrigation water that passes through feces-contaminated areas, like cow feedlots and factory farms where you get your beef and pork. Salmonella is caused by bacteria from animal feces. The reason it is on the vegetables is because it comes from your meat production. Mmmm -- your meat production.

    • 3 years ago
  • JohnA
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      JohnA  

    • Illegal workers working the farms, the corporate farms don't care, the FDA isn't watching, the CPA has it's hands full with China, no inspections, no regulations, no standards, get it to the consumer cheaper and faster, damn the torpedoes.

    • 3 years ago
  • vegetablehazel
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      vegetablehazel  

    • wow i want to say thanks for the information is it wa state or wa D.C, i'm visiting fl right now i'ved non cook tomatoe's i know fl is not on the list but we dont know where those tomatoes comming from when we are eating out another word all of us out there to b-carefull

    • 3 years ago
  • bornproof
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      bornproof  

    • The really scary thing is that these tomatoes look like the organic vine ripened version you pay an arm and a leg for at the grocery store.

    • 3 years ago
  • cerealforeal
  • neckfire
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      neckfire  

    • I wonder if they all came from the same farm like the spinach salmonella incident a year or two ago. Still, it's better than the Hepatitis B strawberries from Mexico a few years back.

    • 3 years ago
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