FDA Expands List Of Mexican States Not Associated With Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak
The FDA has expanded its list of places in Mexico that “HAVE NOT BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE OUTBREAK” to including the following Mexican states: Aguascalientes, Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Colima, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, México, Michoacàn, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, […]
You May Never Look At Spin The Bottle The Same Way Again
A hat tip to Dan Cohen of Maccabee Seed Co. for sending along a USA Today article by Elizabeth Weise that we think is a fascinating piece regarding the early days of the current Salmonella Saintpaul Tomato outbreak. The piece is entitled, How Modern Science and Old-Fashioned Detective Work Cracked the Salmonella Case: …health officials […]
More Than One Outbreak?
As one looks at the numbers, one wonders if this is actually a single outbreak. Right from the beginning, there was something curious about this distribution of cases. New Mexico early on named names, saying that: Individuals and restaurants that bought tomatoes from Walmart in Las Cruces or Farmington, Lowe’s in Las Cruces, or Bashas’ […]
Habeas lycopersicum — Tomatoes Falsely ‘Imprisoned’
We’ve run a series of pieces detailing the struggle of Mexican tomato growers to get the same treatment Florida has… an “exemption” for those parts of the country that were not in production at the time of the outbreak. With pieces, such as Free Baja, Andrew & Williamson Hit Hard By FDA’s Mexican Tomato Ban, […]
CDC’s Map Of Ill PersonsCould Use Some Improvement
The other day, we did a piece entitled, Some Advice For CDC And FDA. In the article we basically raised two points. First, that FDA and CDC need to examine their use of language. The constant announcement of “new” or “additional” cases is deceptive because consumers interpret that to mean somebody got sick today when, […]
FDA Provides No Incentive
To Invest In Food Safety
One wonders if the FDA is aware of how much its rhetoric has diverged from its practice. On a recent press call, Dr. David Acheson, M.D., FDA’s Associate Commissioner for Foods, said all the right things about food safety. When he was asked if the FDA was going to do more inspections, he said that […]
CDC’s Map Of Ill Persons
Could Use Some Improvement
The other day, we did a piece entitled, Some Advice For CDC And FDA. In the article we basically raised two points. First, that FDA and CDC need to examine their use of language. The constant announcement of “new” or “additional” cases is deceptive because consumers interpret that to mean somebody got sick today when, […]
You May Never Look At
Spin The Bottle The Same Way Again
A hat tip to Dan Cohen of Maccabee Seed Co. for sending along a USA Today article by Elizabeth Weise that we think is a fascinating piece regarding the early days of the current Salmonella Saintpaul Tomato outbreak. The piece is entitled, How Modern Science and Old-Fashioned Detective Work Cracked the Salmonella Case: …health officials […]
More Than One Outbreak?
As one looks at the numbers, one wonders if this is actually a single outbreak. Right from the beginning, there was something curious about this distribution of cases. New Mexico early on named names, saying that: Individuals and restaurants that bought tomatoes from Walmart in Las Cruces or Farmington, Lowe’s in Las Cruces, or Bashas’ […]
Habeas lycopersicum —
Tomatoes Falsely ‘Imprisoned’
We’ve run a series of pieces detailing the struggle of Mexican tomato growers to get the same treatment Florida has… an “exemption” for those parts of the country that were not in production at the time of the outbreak. With pieces, such as Free Baja, Andrew & Williamson Hit Hard By FDA’s Mexican Tomato Ban, […]
