Mexican peppers posed problem before outbreak

August 19th, 2008 in Medicine & Health / Diseases

(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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