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Published on July 21, 2008 at 4:38pm
Osterholm is scheduled to appear before Congress on July 30. "I'm gonna be one of the people testifying on what should or could have been done and needed to be," he says. "I'll be detailing a lot of this at that time, and I'll be talking about the Minnesota data at that time."
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Federal authorities now think jalapeños, not tomatoes, caused the salmonella outbreak
It's fitting that Minnesota may have helped investigators crack the mystery of Salmonella saintpaul, because it was here that the strain was first identified by Dr. Ben Pomeroy, a brilliant veterinarian with a passion for turkeys. In their service, he discovered many previously unknown varieties of avian salmonella, giving each new strain a name reflective of a local municipality.
"There's Salmonella minnesota, Salmonella richfield, Salmonella montevideo—so there's a whole lot of them that are all of Minnesota origin," explains Osterholm. "And that's how it happened: He discovered them in turkeys and turkey food."
Pomeroy died January 16, 2004, at age 92, and was hailed as a leading expert on the eradication and control of turkey diseases.
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