But, the FDA still doesn’t know for sure where the tomatoes got contaminated.
Investigators looking for the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to tomatoes will focus on farms in Mexico and Florida, federal health authorities said Friday.
The tracebacks “have taken us from point of consumption all the way back to certain farms in Mexico and Florida,” said Dr. David Acheson, associate commissioner for foods at the Food and Drug Administration.
The agency will send teams of investigators to farms in both locations this weekend as well as to the pathways from those farms in an attempt to determine where the contamination occurred, he said.
The tomatoes may not have been contaminated on a farm, he stressed; the contamination could have occurred in a packing shed, warehouse, supplier chain or distribution center.
Now, if the has traced the tomatoes back to certain farms, then, they know which wharehouses, packing sheds, etc., the tomatoes have been in (remember they trace backwards), so why haven’t these places been tested for salmonella?
Furthermore, why aren’t people, and especially restaurants and food plants washing the tomatoes before using them?
