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100 More Labs Join FDA Effort to Test Beyond Tomatoes
from USA Today
The Food and Drug Administration activated its Food Emergency Response Network on Tuesday, adding as many as 100 laboratories to its efforts to trace the source of the salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 800 since April.
The extra labs are needed because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over the weekend expanded its investigation of the outbreak originally blamed on contaminated tomatoes. The federal agencies are now collecting samples of foods typically consumed with tomatoes.
That doesn't mean that tomatoes are off the suspect list, cautioned David Acheson, the FDA's associate commissioner for foods. "The tomato trail is still hot, it's a question of whether other items are getting hotter," he said.
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