Tomatoes Pulled After Salmonella Warning

Restaurants are removing tomato slices from sandwiches and grocery stores are plucking red plum tomatoes from their produce aisles following a nationwide alert that raw tomatoes may have infected scores of people with a rare form of salmonella.

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• Tomatoes Pulled After Salmonella Warning
• The Checkout: You Say Tomato, I Say Salmonella

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Food and Drug Administration officials warned consumers over the weekend to avoid Roma, red plum and red round tomatoes not attached to a vine because they may carry salmonella, a bacteria that causes severe abdominal pain and diarrhea. At least 145 people, including two in Virginia, have been infected since mid-April, and new cases were being linked to the outbreak yesterday. No one has died.