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A hot (pepper) lead in hunt for salmonella source

Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 07/23/2008 - 15:36

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was a hot lead for detectives on a cold case. People suddenly were getting salmonella at a Minnesota restaurant more than 1,000 miles from the center of the nation's outbreak....


 

Why it takes so long to trace a bad tomato

Headlines from the Associated Press  Sat, 06/14/2008 - 10:29

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Food and Drug Administration detectives had a hot lead, narrowing down on a grower who just might have supplied salmonella-tainted tomatoes.

Then the patient changed her story: She'd eaten a round tomato, not a Roma one after all....