| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2008 
Mexico: US Warning Against Mexican Jalapeno 'Baseless'
 Associated Press
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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 pepper handled by a small Texas produce shipper. (AP/Gregory Bull) | | |
Mexico City - Mexican officials said Friday that a U.S. warning implicating raw Mexican jalapeno peppers in a salmonella outbreak was "baseless" and could harm that nation's growers.
Mexico's National Sanitation and Farm Food Quality Service director Enrique Sanchez said Mexico has sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expressing "our most forceful complaint against this decision."
Sanchez told The Associated Press that the FDA "has no scientific proof to make a decision that will harm Mexico enormously."
He said FDA inspectors have visited tomato and jalapeno pepper farms in four Mexican states and found no trace of salmonella.
The FDA urged consumers on Friday to avoid raw Mexican jalapenos and the serrano peppers often confused with them. On Monday, the FDA said it had found the same strain of salmonella that has sickened nearly 1,300 people on a single Mexican-grown jalapeno in a Texas warehouse.
In a joint statement, Mexico's Agriculture and Foreign Relations Departments urged the FDA "to abstain from making any other public comments linking Mexican produce to the outbreak until it completes its investigation." |
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