(AP) -- Federal inspectors at U.S. border crossings repeatedly turned back filthy, disease-ridden shipments of peppers from Mexico in the months before a salmonella outbreak that sickened 1,400 people was finally traced to Mexican chilies.
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If this was an American pepper producer, he would be put out of business, fined heavily and put in jail. What about all the AMERICAN tomato producers that were put out of business. The Government knew this was the problem, yet they let the American producers be put out of business. Does that mean we will be eating the same tainted tomatoes from Mexico. Our government worries more about foreign countries imports than saving our own food producers. Chuck Tucker (CO) 8/20/08