Outbreak Alert: FDA Clears Some States And Countries But Not Others
Late Thursday Evening, June 5, 2008, the FDA posted a change on its web site: ADVICE FOR RETAILERS, RESTAURATEURS AND FOOD SERVICE OPERATORS FDA traceback review, in addition to production and distribution pattern information, has indicated that tomatoes from the following sources are not associated with the outbreak: California Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Texas […]
CDC Stays Mum On Release Of Tomato/Salmonella Data
One of the big questions we don’t know the answer to is whether any warning on consumption of tomatoes is justified at all. We know that sometimes by the time the government acts, the crisis has long passed. When the FDA imposed its “import alert” on Agropecuaria Montelibano, a Honduran grower and packer, it was […]
New Mexico Health Department
Takes Lead In Tomato/Salmonella
Outbreak Information
We included an Alert issued by the New Mexico Department of Health in our piece, Salmonella and Tomatoes Linked in New Mexico, and now we asked Pundit Investigator and Special Projects Editor Mira Slott to see what else we could learn from New Mexico. Deborah Busemeyerspokesperson New Mexico Department of HealthSanta Fe, New Mexico A: […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Saintpaul Strain Of Salmonella
Ranked Ninth In Humans
We were pleased to feature an informative interview with Trevor Suslow, Ph.D., Extension Research Specialist, Postharvest Quality and Safety, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, as part of our piece Salmonella And Tomatoes Linked In New Mexico. The interview included some discussion of the incidence of Salmonella Saintpaul. We are fortunate to have […]
Tomato Producers Line Up
To Promote Their Own
Producers of tomatoes not implicated in the salmonella outbreak are hoping consumers will still be open to consuming tomatoes and that retailers will make plenty of shelf space available to these “permitted” varieties. Here is press release one vendor based in Texas sent out: 50% OF TOMATOES DEEMED SAFE FOR RAW CONSUMPTIONCherry, Grape and Tomatoes-on-the-Vine […]
Is FDA Acting To Preserve
Public Health OR
Acting to be Seen as Activist?
One of these days, someone high up is going to notice that the actions the FDA takes in the name of preserving public health often make no sense at all. Right up till late last night, the FDA was warning consumers in New Mexico and Texas not to eat raw red plum tomatoes, red Roma […]
Tomato/Salmonella Situation
Cries For Improved Epidemiology
One couldn’t read the events chronicled in our piece, Salmonella And Tomatoes Linked In New Mexico, without thinking of the spinach crisis of 2006. And as the FDA later announced a warning that consumers in Texas and New Mexico shouldn’t eat specific tomato varieties, it seemed like déjà vue all over again. In the aftermath […]
Salmonella And Tomatoes
Linked In New Mexico
If, like most of us today, you work 24/7 and, as such, live connected to your Blackberry, iPhone or PDA, the tranquility of your weekend may have been disturbed by an e-mail from PMA, United or both as they dispatched an announcement referencing an Alert issued by the New Mexico Department of Health: DEPARTMENT OF […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Food Prices
And Free Markets
Our piece entitled, Food Shortages? Blame Governments, focused on an article in The Wall Street Journal revealing that efforts to maintain small landholdings in the Ukraine were having an impact on food production in this country that was once the bread basket of the Soviet Union. The gist of the piece was that laws precluding […]
Donohue To Lead Grower-Shipper
Association Of Central California
It seems as if just the other day, we were trumpeting the induction of the first woman to head this important regional association with our piece, Filice Takes Helm On Grower-Shipper Association of Central California. It seems, though, as if a full year has passed and the association has news: GROWER-SHIPPER ASSOCIATION INAUGURATESMAYOR OF SALINAS […]
