MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida’s tomato industry is in “complete collapse” and $40 million worth of tomatoes will rot unless federal regulators quickly trace the source of a salmonella outbreak and clear the state’s produce, an industry official said on Tuesday. “We probably have $40 million worth of product we can’t sell. We’ve had to stop packing, stop picking,” said Reggie Brown, executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange.
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