A jalapeno pepper is pictured in Encinitas, California July 22, 2008. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has found a jalapeno pepper contaminated with a strain of salmonella that has sickened more than 1,200 people, officials said on Monday. The pepper, which showed up at a south Texas distribution facility, originated in Mexico but could have been contaminated in a variety of places, the FDA said. REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES)