Source: Lynsey Layton, Washington Post ( Free Registration )

The Food and Drug Administration is reexamining the safety of a culinary staple found in every restaurant, food manufacturing plant and home kitchen pantry: spices.

In the middle of a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness linked to black and red pepper - and after 16 U.S. recalls since 2001 of tainted spices - federal regulators met last week with the spice industry to figure out ways to make the supply safer.

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