Thread: Mex growers stop tomato shipments to US amid salmonella scar

Published: 06.10.2008
Mexican growers stop tomato shipments to US amid salmonella scare
The Associated Press

MEXICO CITY - A major Mexican tomato-growers' association says shipments to the United States have stopped as U.S. authorities investigate the origin of a salmonella outbreak.
But a spokesman for the Sinaloa state Tomato Growers Association says it's just a precaution; there's no evidence so far that the salmonella originated in Mexico, which accounts for about a third of winter tomatoes in the United States.
Spokesman Mario Robles says the association ships 44 percent of Mexican tomatoes imported into the United States and Canada. Its importer voluntarily stopped shipments during the probe. The tomatoes are being sent to Mexican markets, where they will be sold at a lower price. http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/breakingnews/87824.php

Mexico, China and other third world countries use human waste to fertilize
food crops, you are what you eat.

Its importer voluntarily stopped shipments during the probe. The tomatoes are being sent to Mexican markets, where they will be sold at a lower price.

They 'voluntarily' stopped because they didn't want added transportation charges to a product that can't be sold.

Maybe they stopped shipping so that their product can't be tested here for salmonella?

you cannot find tomatos in the supermarkets

You might want to stock up on canned tomato products and ketchup before they jack the price way up

Read in a newspaper this morning they think they came from either Florida or Mexico.