Tomatoes disappeared from many restaurants and markets this week, as fear over a salmonella outbreak linked to the fruit spread. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not determined the source of the outbreak, and officials do not know if all of the tainted tomatoes are off the market yet. Health officials warned consumers to avoid raw plum, Roma, or round tomatoes but said grape, cherry, and vine tomatoes aren't linked to the outbreak. The FDA also cleared some tomatoes from Florida and all those grown in California, the country's largest tomato producers. So far at least 228 people in 23 states have been sickened with salmonella.
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