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Released: March 14, 2010
Better safeguards for spices sought
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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