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Six More States Report New Patients Stricken With Virus

Washington-Members of the Food and Drug Administration are grim as they are being forced to answer questions by Federal Congressional investigators upset at the continued spread of the Salmonella illness.

Members of the FDA were solemn and very tight lipped as they had to admit to federal lawmakers on Thursday that they missed opportunities to protect the nations food supply with their failure to fully implement some of the food protection plans that have been on the books for nearly a year.

Six more states are reporting victims, pushing the total to nearly 229 people in 23 different states, now including New York State.

The source has been traced to tomatoes, but past that there is still no definitive traced source of the outbreak, the illness or the location where the Salmonella virus first began.

No one has been killed as yet, but there have been several score of patients that have required hospitalization across the nation as the current salmonella illness ravages patients stricken with the virus.

The lawmakers in Washington D.C. are pushing harder and harder for answers from a harried and increasingly inept FDA.

The FDA has a number of plans to protect the nations food supply, but several of these under questioning by members of Congress this week have been exposed as not being fully implemented, or put into full force.

Lawmakers have pushed harder, as the salmonella illness has progressed.

They want to know why better procedures and safety measures are not in place, and they want to know now.