Salmonella seems to be in the trend this season, but is not fashionable. The bacterium that causes food poisoning is a rod-shaped bacterium which could be found in the intestine and can also cause gastroenteritis and typhoid fever.
Starting April 1, this year, Salmonella Saintpaul has sickened more than 1, 300 people and about 242 were hospitalized. The Food and Drug administration has tried to discover the produce infected since then.

At first, tomatoes were accused to contain the virus. Certain raw tomatoes were got off the market on June 7. The FDA groceries and restaurants stopped receiving the tomatoes and the industry started to fail. Tomatoes producers ran out of money and costumers.

It seems that now only jalapeno and Serrano peppers are responsible for the outbreak from the District of Columbia, Canada and 43 other states.

The FDA found the salmonella on a jalapeno imported from Mexico at the Agricola Zarigosa to a distribution center in McAllen, Texas, but the Mexicans said that the administration doesn’t have any scientific proof to harm their country so much.

Still, the distribution center in Texas wasn’t the source of the Salmonella outbreak because more types of jalapenos have passed through there and peppers from the United States haven’t been related to the outbreak either.
Mexico is very concerned about its involvement in the outbreak scandal and has asked the FDA not to make any public comments until they have finished the investigations.

Yet, cooked peppers or the ones pickled are not infested with the Salmonella Saintpaul.

As for the tomatoes, it seems that the ban has been lifted last week and they’re safe to be bought. The ones on the market are not infested, but they still haven’t been ruled out the possibility to have started this outbreak.