Mexican farmers angry over FDA salmonella probe From: latimes.com
Tagged: border, Mexico, salesPosted on: June 17th, 2008
Farmers are mad enough to throw, well, rotten tomatoes at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is focusing heavily on Mexico as a potential source of the fruit that has sickened hundreds of people in the United States with salmonella.
Mexican tomatoes are putrefying in warehouses south of the border. Producers say they’re losing millions of dollars in export sales even though U.S. health officials haven’t discovered the pathogen in any of the Mexican samples they’ve tested.”*
Curation from Tomás
Filed Under: Business News, Food, Health
