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As Federal Salmonella Search Continues Are Peppers To Blame?

Texas-Many people in the produce industry and elsewhere are concerned, because of the recent announcement that a Jalapeno pepper was found with salmonella on it in a shipment from Mexico.

First tomatoes were declared off limits, then only certain kinds of tomatoes, and then they were declared completely safe.

Then it was cilantro, and possibly salsa, then both were cleared, and they began to look at jalapeno peppers.

Meanwhile, whole industries have been getting hammered, losing customers and flailing around while the medical and health professionals seemingly flounder around without a specific cause or diagnosis in sight.

The salmonella outbreak has caused over 1,200 people in 44 states, and nearly 300 have had to be hospitalized, but there never was a sample of tomatoes that were found to have the bacteria on it.

Neither with cilantro, and salsa.

But with jalapeno peppers, they supposedly have found a single sample.

One Sample.

And it’s this, which has again caused havoc with the produce industry.

Now, leaders in government and industry are demanding to know the cause, and why the source of this disease cannot be discovered in a timely fashion, by some means not stranding millions of dollars worth of product and costing millions of dollars in lost wages, jobs and productivity.