Why it takes so long to trace a bad tomato

Courtesy 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....

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