Fresh Produce Discussion Blog

Created by The Packer's National Editor Tom Karst

Monday, July 7, 2008

No press conference today

A spokesman at FDA said there will be no press conference today, but to look for one tomorrow. As far as tomatoes, he said there is still a strong correlation of salmonella to consumption of raw tomatoes. However, investigators can't seem to converge on any point of contamination for tomatoes and correlation doesn't not prove causality...so investigators are also now looking at jalapeno peppers, cilantro and Serrano peppers.

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