Thread: Worried U.S. Buyers Block Mexican Tomatoes at Border

Worried U.S. Buyers Block Mexican Tomatoes at Border

Buyers spooked by a salmonella outbreak are blocking shipments of Mexican tomatoes at the U.S. border.
Thursday, June 12, 2008


MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Buyers spooked by a salmonella outbreak are blocking shipments of Mexican tomatoes at the U.S. border as reports come in that the bacteria has poisoned over 200 people in 23 states, Mexico's agriculture minister said on Thursday.
"I've had phone calls from producers saying their tomatoes are being blocked, not all varieties but some varieties," Alberto Cardenas said, stressing that officials had found no evidence so far that Mexican tomatoes were unsafe to eat.

Twenty-five people have been hospitalized as a result of the U.S. outbreak, which is being linked to raw plum, Roma and round tomatoes. Investigators at the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, have not ruled out Mexico as the source of the infection.
"There is uncertainty, and once a producer sends a shipment, it is complicated to get it back so they are holding off to see what the FDA says," said Manuel Tarriba, head of a vegetable exporters association.

Many growers had to throw out their fresh crops after buyers canceled orders, he said.
Farmers and the government say Mexico's industry follows strict sanitary standards and producers were being singled out unfairly amid the panic.

"Our tomatoes have been eaten in the United States for years and there has never been a problem of any kind. Here we eat Mexican tomatoes all year round and there has never been an incident," Cardenas said.
Some 84 percent of the tomatoes imported by the United States come from Mexico, around 700,000 tonnes a year in a business worth $900 million, according to Tarriba's organization.

Exports of Mexican agricultural products soared after the United States, Canada and Mexico lifted trade barriers under the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.
But Mexican farmers say the advantages of free trade can be easily canceled out by a sanitary scare

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probally because of the sanitary conditions from mexico,
they dont have any. They go to the bathroom right where they work, from what the media has reported, they are 8 ways that illegals can make AMERICANS sick. I believe its due to the LACK of their bathroom habits.


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Did a mexican grocer say they water the tomatoes with sewage water? Why in the world would I want fruit that was watered with SEWAGE?!?!?!

He also said Mexicans are used to washing their fruits and veggies with bleach and water or soap and water, double ewww!

Make it a permanent ban on ALL mexican fruits and veggies!

Our tomatoes have been eaten in the United States for years and there has never been a problem of any kind. Here we eat Mexican tomatoes all year round and there has never been an incident," Cardenas said

yeah~! since 2005....and only because they try to hide the country of origin labels...also since around 2005...
I BUY US TOMATOES...but usually grow my own...and then can or dehydrate them....Let us not forget the pesticide laws are not the same in Mexico ...and the organic labels are not to be trusted they use organic sludge(can you guess what that is?)...beware of the words Distributed by....that is a sure sign...it was not grown or produced here...don't buy it....and remember the post found in a forum of the OBL nut bars...and the leader telling the followers to give the Americans Montezuma revenge