nevermind.....FDA lifts warning on tomatoes. pssst they don't have a clue.

[spanone]

george junior bu$h*s fda doesn't have a clue what's making people sick,,,

i find it disturbing that our government cannot trace the sources of our food. this shit is inspected. isn't it?





(CNN) -- Tomatoes are again safe to eat, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday, weeks after the food was blamed as a source of a salmonella outbreak in the United States and Canada.

The federal agency lifted its warning about tomatoes but left in place a warning about raw jalapeño and serrano peppers, having previously said those foods also may be linked to the outbreak.

The source of the outbreak still isn't known -- and 20 to 30 reports of the illness are coming in per day -- but the FDA said the epidemic is "waning."

Salmonella Saintpaul -- a rare form of the bacteria -- has infected more than 1,190 people in 42 states and Canada since April, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/07/17/fda.salmonella/index.html

[lpbk2713]

1. The people who were hurt the most by this were the migrant pickers and their families.

But BushCo doesn't GAF. Hell, that might have been the plan all along, to make the poor even poorer.

[begin_within]

2. So how many tomato farmers were hurt financially by the FDA's bungling of this?

[lpbk2713]

6. Over a hundred million from the latest I heard.

But the growers and the distributors have insurance and other resources to fall back on.

The pickers don't have a damn thing. They can't even be sure of a job from one day to the next.

[Breeze54]

3. Bush gouged the budget of the FDA. I don't trust anything they say now.

I haven't eaten a tomato in weeks and I have canned, stewed tomato's that I'm afraid to open. I love tomato's, just eat
them like an apple with salt and pepper but when I do go get some, it will be from a local grower. And I mean local.
The farmer down the street. ;)

[Ron Green]

7. I'm picking them from my own vines in my greenhouse. mmmm.

[Breeze54]

10. I'm jealous.... I grew a ton of them last year in my little garden but

I thought I had to move by June from here, so I didn't plant
any and it was still too cold then. I'm sorry now I didn't. :(

Enjoy your's though, you teaser!! :P

[Kutjara]

4. Didn't ShrubCo shut down all but a handful of FDA offices?

This might at least partially explain the department's inability to distinguish shit from shinola these days.

[Overseas]

5. Things should be better now since they cut the number of inspectors.

So things should be running perfectly now, freed from all that pesky government interference.
Maybe we should privatize food inspection? Get Kellog Brown and Root to do it?

[spanone]

8. i'm of the belief that he's gutted all the agencies. what about terrorists and our food supply?

[Breeze54]

12. rotflmfao!!

:rofl:

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Maat]

9. I ate my organically-grown tomatoes throughout the ban ...

very delicious.

[napi21]

11. Here's the cryptic email I got from ABC News:

Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:

FDA REMOVES TOMATO SALMONELLA WARNING, NOTING THAT POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED TOMATOES ARE NO LONGER BEING SHIPPED


I found it interesting terminology "potentially contaminated...no longer being shipped", except there's nothing about WHERE these potentially contaminated tomatoes were coming from. The really SAD thing is that many tomato producers are out of business, or close to it!

BTW, part of Shrub's budget cuts to the FDA are responsible for this mess, but I place even MORE blame on the head of the FDA! I heard her testify before a congressional hearing a few months ago and every time congress said they wanted to give her more $$ so she could hire more inspectors, she said "I don't WANT any more money! We don't need any. We're doing just fine!"

[spanone]

13. they don't have a clue.....potentially it could have been any damned thing

:shrug:

[jdlh8894]

14. I blame the MSM

I mean,1000 people got sick -out of a population of 300,000,000?
Another pandemic??