Tomato growers slam FDA as salmonella outbreak continues

[maddezmom]

Tomato growers slam FDA as salmonella outbreak continues
By Jim Downing | Sacramento Bee
Was slicing tomatoes from our menus worth it?

More than 1,200 people in 42 states now have been sickened by a rare strain of salmonella bacteria carried on tomatoes … or maybe hot peppers. Or maybe both.

Federal investigators on Thursday said they still aren't sure but declared all tomatoes now on the market safe to eat.

Americans have continued to get sick – at a rate of about 20 people per day – even after the Food and Drug Administration's June 7 warning to not eat three popular types of tomatoes drove restaurants, distributors and grocery stores to dump tomatoes by the crate at an estimated cost of $100 million to $250 million.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/44664.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. The putrid fruit of republiconomic deregulation

republicons drowned government in the bathtub, and Starved the Beast. As a consequence America suffers crappy, sickening food.

Thanks a pantload, you so-called 'conservatives.' You have yet another massive FAIL to your, um, credit.

[Greybnk48]

2. Or maybe cilantro

my daughter works for a huge produce distributer and the outbreak is now linked to fresh salsa. But not the tomatoes. They now think it's the peppers as you say or the cilantro--but no one knows for sure.

[TexasObserver]

3. Now that they've put tomato growers out of business ...

And they don't even think it was the tomatoes.

[madrchsod]

4. at least some in this country can get farmer`s market tomatoes

and other produce...there`s a lot of urban land that would make great neighborhood gardens.