Salmonella scare hit California growers hard
California's tomato sales plummeted more than 40 percent during the most recent Salmonella scare. Melanie Horwath, a member of the fourth generation of the family that runs Gonzales Packing Company in the Salinas Valley blamed government for her company's estimated crop losses of $2 million.
"The government has a responsibility to only provide facts, not idle speculation. They're going to put us all out of business."
The FDA is now looking at jalapeno and serrano peppers as possible sources of the Salmonella instead of tomatoes.
"I don't think we have all answers yet," said Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota.
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