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Maya Yang

FDA issues highest alert for tomato recall due to salmonella risk

a women setting up a tomato stand
Ailyn Lopez sets up a display of tomatoes while helping out on her family's stand at the Atlanta Farmers Market in Atlanta on 6 June 2015. Photograph: David Goldman/AP

The Food and Drug Administration has upgraded a tomato recall in three states to its most severe warning due to a potential salmonella contamination.

Three weeks ago the agency announced a voluntary recall by Williams Farms Repack LLC of its tomatoes across Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Last week, the FDA upgraded the recall to Class 1, indicating a reasonable probability that the product could “cause serious adverse health consequences or death”.

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