Contaminated Tomato Update
After months of investigation and few answers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that it is once again safe to eat tomatoes. However the FDA still does not know where the contamination came from. The warning has been lifted because there are no longer any tomatoes coming onto the market from locations that were on the suspect list. Towards the end of June, with the outbreak finally starting to slow, new warnings emerged. The FDA warns that people who are risk of salmonella (like infants, the elderly, and people with impaired immune systems) avoid fresh hot peppers like … Continue reading