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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Troubled by the tainted tomato scare, nearly half of Americans are concerned they may get sick from eating contaminated food and are avoiding items they normally would buy, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll has found....

The tomato investigators are stumped. Over the past four weeks, they have pored over records, collected hundreds of samples and interviewed dozens of patients to find the cause of a salmonella outbreak.

So far, their efforts haven't produced an answer, and they have begun to question whether their...

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA said today that it is closing in on the source of the tomatoes infected with Salmonella Saintpaul and is sending teams of inspectors to search two distribution chains that lead back to farms in Florida and Mexico.

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....

The FDA has added five more states to its list of safe sources of raw red plum, raw red Roma, and raw round red tomatoes that aren't linked to the salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 167 people in 17 states since mid-April.

At least 145 people in 16 states have been sickened by salmonella-tainted tomatoes; not all tomatoes affected, says the FDA.