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Tomatoes: After $500 mil in losses, the FDA appears wrong
nowpublic.com — With 1,700 samples collected and all shown to be negative for salmonella, they are now looking at jalapenos and other produce items commonly served with tomatoes as possible culprits.
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- MewTwo, on 07/05/2008, -4/+2Oh...
- londubh, on 07/05/2008, -1/+13Well you know what the sellers and farmers can do with all those rotting tomatoes? They could probably bury the FDA and throw several tomatoes at every sing FDA agent.
- lucy22, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4So what made everyone sick?
Salsa ingredients the next culprit. - CelebVoy, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3In other news, Mexico went bankrupt.
- voxtarri, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3Boooo Texas doesn't need any more border jumpers
- Asheis, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5:( not the jalepenos.. I eat those things like candy, damn it!
- WordsnCollision, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2First FEMA, now the FDA... would the latter be headed by a Bush appointee, per chance?
- joeanon, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3These things and the meat recall are usually pointless.
IF YOU COOK MEAT YOU DON'T GET SICK.
IF YOU WASH YOUR VEGETABLE YOU USUALLY DON'T GET SICK.
We pay billions to be, 'extra safe', a and put companies out of businesses with product recalls and market fears driving down sales.
Unless the outbreak is an obvious source that is HIGHLY CONTAMINATED then most of this effort is worthless.
You can ingest these bacterias in small doses and be fine, they usually have to be concentrated such as in UNDERCOOKED MEANT and UNWASHED VEGETABLES.
really it's that simple... that how people get through hundreds of years before us. - wildsnake, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2Produce and vegetables don't get contaminated without some sort of unsanitary cause. Some worker(s) probably took a dump or a piss somewhere and contaminated the whole crop. What else!?
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