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Fla., Mexico Are Main Salmonella Sources: FDA

Agency stepping up efforts to track contamination

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 13, 2008 4:40 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Food and Drug Administration is focusing Florida and Mexico as sources of the salmonella outbreak that has afflicted 228 people in 23 states, the Wall Street Journal reports. The “vast majority” of tomatoes imported at the time of outbreak appear to have come... Read full story »

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