date:Jul 25, 2013
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will no longer detain cucumbers from the Mexican growers whose products were linked to an outbreak of Salmonella earlier this year.
The agency removed the two cucumber suppliers from its import alerts list this week, meaning that their products can no longer be detained without physical examination.
The cucumbers were placed on the list April 23, 2013 after they were named as the likely source of an ongoing outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul that would event