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FDA declares it's OK to eat tomatoes again - Forbes
It's OK to eat all kinds of tomatoes again, the U.S. government declared Thursday - lifting its salmonella warning on the summer favorites amid signs that the record outbreak, while not over, may finally be slowing. Hot peppers still get a caution
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FDA eases tomato warning - Baltimore Sun
WASHINGTON - After warning Americans for six weeks against eating certain kinds of tomatoes, federal health officials gave the all-clear yesterday - without ever finding solid evidence that tomatoes were the cause of the largest outbreak of food
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Growers want FDA to clear Fla.'s whole tomato crop - Miami Herald
ORLANDO, Fla. Florida tomato growers have asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to declare there is no salmonella in the state's tomato crops. The salmonella outbreak began in April, sickening more than 1,000 people in the United States, but
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FDA declares tomatoes safe, but peppers not off the hook - Philadelphia Inquirer
WASHINGTON - It's OK to eat all kinds of tomatoes again, the U.S. government declared yesterday - lifting its salmonella warning on the summer favorites amid signs that the record outbreak, while not over, may finally be slowing. Hot peppers still
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FDA: Salmonella cases not linked to tomatoes - AZCentral.com
Federal officials said Thursday that all tomatoes on the U.S. market are safe to eat but they still don't know what's causing a salmonella outbreak that's sickened thousands over the past three months. Jalapeno and serrano peppers remain the focus of
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FDA protecting wrong party - Philadelphia Inquirer
Richard Golomb is a past president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association More than 200 years ago, America's greatest patriots convened to write a document that would empower us all with inalienable rights, liberties and freedoms. But on this
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FDA gives OK to tomatoes, continues warning on peppers - Newsday
WASHINGTON - The federal government declared it's OK to eat tomatoes again, amid an ongoing outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul but with signs that - while not over - it may be slowing. Food and Drug Administration officials reiterated earlier warnings
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FDA Grants Clearance for Celera's ViroSeq(R) HIV-1 Genotyping System - MSN MoneyCentral
Celera CRA today announced that it has received marketing clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its 510(k) submission of the ViroSeq HIV-1 Genotyping System Software v2.8. The ViroSeq HIV-1 Genotyping ™ System is designed to
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FDA Panel: J&J's Doribax Effective For Nosocomial Pneumonia - CNN Money
Rockville, Md. -(Dow Jones)- Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ) antibiotic Doribax appears effective enough to treat pneumonia for patients on mechanical ventilation units, a panel of medical experts told federal regulators Wednesday. Panel members, however
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