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The Food and Drug administration is placing Florida’s tomatoes on the safe-to-eat-list. Until this afternoon the FDA was telling consumers to stay away from tomatoes grown in Florida, after a salmonella outbreak in 16 other states made 145 people sick. The outbreak killed a Texas man. Tomatoes remained banned in most of the country. State Agriculture Department spokeswoman Liz Compton said no one has gotten sick from Florida grown tomatoes.

“We’ve had zero illnesses in Florida. We also sell along the Eastern seaboard and we have not see illnesses in that area. The illnesses are in Western states,” said Compton.

Florida farmers produce 36 percent of the nation’s tomatoes.