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Florida Tomato's Not the Source of US Salmonella Outbreak
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by TampaVP | June 14, 2008 at 11:21 am
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Florida's 500-million dollar a year tomato industry has been cleared of being the culprit of the recent salmonella outbreak. The St. Petersburg Times reported on Wednesday June, 11, that the FDA gave Florida tomatoes a "safe to eat" ruling.
Charles Bronson, Florida's Agricultural Commissioner, said "Florida tomato growers have one of the most stringent tomato production programs in the nation," and that he was confident that Florida tomatoes were not to blame. Bronson also stated that the tomatoes that are being harvested and shipped at present did not even exist when the salmonella outbreak occurred.
Jay Scott, a a professor of horticulture with the University of Florida's Gulf Coast Research and Education Center in Wimauma, said that the Florida tomato growers must now vindicate their reputation in the eyes of the American consumer if Florida tomatoes are to recover lost consumer confidence.
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at 11:39 on June 14th, 2008
This is great news! Thanks for posting this article, but please use the highlight tool in future, so that our readers know where your stories are coming from, as this looks like you wrote it yourself. Here's our guide to our highlight tool. http://www.nowpublic.com/newsroom/tools/highlight/getting_started.
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at 07:53 on June 16th, 2008
Thanks for the info, I was wondering how citations are handled here. I am accustomed to using APA formatting to write research papers and have never written a blog or article. I scoured a few stories to see what was being used to reference sources and did not pickup on the highlight feature. So again, thank you for the heads-up.
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TampaVP