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 FDA Information - January 7, 2009
| The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday advised consumers against eating tomalley or liver in lobsters after it was found to be contaminated with dangerous levels of the toxins. The soft, green substance or tomalley found in the body cavity of lobsters can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. The warning applies to American lobster, also known as Maine lobster, which is harvested in Atlantic waters from Canada to South Carolina | | Almost a week after discovering a nationwide salmonella outbreak was caused by jalapeńos and not tomatoes, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has narrowed down its warning to Mexico-grown peppers only. In a statement released Friday, the FDA said jalapeńo and serrano peppers grown in the United States are not connected with the current salmonella saintpaul outbreak and that only Mexico-grown produce should be avoided | | The HEB grocery chain is removing from its shelves all fresh jalapenos, pico de gallo and other items prepared with raw jalapenos following the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) warning that the peppers might be linked to salmonella. The voluntary recall by the Texas-based grocery store chain was ordered as a precaution after FDA officials found a strain of salmonella in a Mexican-grown jalapeno in a Texas food processing plant | | Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors found the salmonella strain linked to a nationwide food poisoning outbreak in a Mexican jalapeno pepper at a Texas produce distribution plant on Monday. Agricola Zaragoza Inc., owner of the plant, decided to recall fresh jalapenos it distributed after one tested positive for the salmonella Saintpaul, which has sickened 1,251 people in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada since April. Two died from the poisoning | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared Thursday that raw tomatoes in fields and stores are safe to eat. However, the federal agency did not lift its warning that raw hot peppers may infect the elderly and those with weak immune system with salmonella | |
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