Tomatoes Not Really Behind Salmonella Outbreak?

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Posted: 5:07 PM Jun 27, 2008
Last Updated: 5:07 PM Jun 27, 2008
Reporter: Associated Press

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As salmonella cases continue to climb, the government is checking if tainted tomatoes really are to blame for the record outbreak -- or if the problem is with another ingredient, or a warehouse that is contaminating newly harvested tomatoes.

Federal health officials say there's no evidence clearing tomatoes. But inspectors haven't yet found the outbreak's source even as cases continue to rise -- to 810 confirmed ill. Most worrisome, the latest victim became sick on June 15.

Patricia Griffin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the agency is looking into other ingredients, just in case tomatoes were not to blame.

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Posted by: lex Location: Colorado on Jun 28, 2008 at 08:30 PM
We got to watch out what we import from other countries. We must test everything that comes in.

Posted by: confussed on Jun 28, 2008 at 10:25 AM
This is just another example of the media sending the public into a frenzy over nothing now I can get to my real point about the things I remember when I was a kid in school the teachers giving us students Nuclear bomb drills it scared me half to death I had night meres for a long time about being in school and a bomb killing my family and I was only alive because I had a desk to get under than being taught about the next Iceage and that our winters where going to be colder and longer that the acid rain going to eat our skin off and the paint was going to fall right off our houses and now green house gass's are causing global warming and what about the anthrax scare that killed so many people a few years ago oh what about those Electro magnatic feilds aroud high power lines and cell phones messing up the bees and three legged frogs gass shortages in the 70s yah I had to help my dad push his car to a pump because we could only get gass on odd number days over the years I have lived

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