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The FDA reported on Thursday, July 17th that it was once again safe to eat fresh tomatoes. The recent salmonella outbreak reached 1,220 confirmed cases, with at least 242 people hospitalized. While the FDA says it is safe to eat tomatoes, eating peppers is another story. The warning against jalapeno and serrano peppers remains in effect for the largest foodborne outbreak in the United States in more than a decade.

The FDA said they still do not know where the original contamination was. In this salmonella outbreak, there are 20 to 30 new cases being reported daily. While the outbreak is definitely not over, there has been a decreased number of new cases since the middle of June. The outbreak began in April of this year.

At first, the FDA thought the cause of the outbreak was due to contaminated tomatoes but it has been linked now to peppers.

ff wrote this on July 20th, 2008 and filed it under Healthy Living, Healthy Eating |