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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Salmonella found in basil grown in Mexico
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:35:24 -0600


Salmonella found in basil grown in Mexico
FDA finds the germ in herbs imported by a Garden Grove firm. The product is
recalled in three states.
>From Bloomberg News
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fi-basil12-2008jul12,0,7439022.story
July 12, 2008

Salmonella, the bacterium that has sickened more than 1,000 Americans who ate
tainted produce since April, has also been found in Thai basil grown in
Mexico.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration identified salmonella during random
testing of basil imported by Lucky Green Trading Inc., a family-run company
based in Garden Grove, the agency said Friday. The product has been recalled
from Southern California, Arizona and Nevada, where it was distributed
directly and sold in retail stores.

FDA officials have boosted inspections of Mexican exports as they look for
the origin of the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak that has spread to 42 states
since mid-April. Although the focus has been on certain types of tomatoes
grown in Mexico and Florida, officials said this week that jalapenos caused
some illnesses and serrano peppers and cilantro also were under investigation.

"Every importer from Mexico has to go through the inspection," said Tony Ton,
whose family runs Lucky Green. "That's a new thing. Every year, we used to
have one or two occasions where FDA has to do a random inspection."

No illnesses have been linked to Lucky Green's herbs. The firm's Thai basil
comes from the town of Santa Rosa Tapachula in Nayarit, a state on the
west-central coast of Mexico. It sells no other products this time of the
year, Ton said.

Three shipments of Thai basil from the same Mexican grower passed inspection
last week, so Lucky Green is checking on whether the latest batch was
contaminated by another grower in the same area, Ton said.




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