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Jul 14 2008, AP

Mexico’s health secretary says a team of health and agriculture officials has traveled to the United States to demand that Mexican tomatoes be cleared of any suspicion in a recent salmonella outbreak.Jose Angel Cordova says the group will meet with U.S....

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A vendor stands behind jalapenos pepper for sale in a market in Mexico City, Monday, July 21, 2008. U.S. government inspectors finally have a big clue in the salmonella outbreak in the U.S: they found the same bacteria on a single Mexican-grown jalapeno...