FDA bungles tomato industry with Salmonella scare
July 31, 2008 · By Charles Anthony
After tying up the tomato industry unnecessarily, the FDA now triumphs its dubious discovery of the origin of the Salmonella poisoning: a Mexican pepper farm!
This is utterly pathetic, if not fraudulent on the part of the bureaucrats. A thousand people getting sick out of millions of North Americans is no reason to stop the entire shipment of all tomatoes — even if tomatoes were the source — because consumers should be responsible for washing their own food.
Is this the best the FDA can do? It reminds me of the recent Batman movie where Alfred recounts how an entire forest in Burma was burned just to catch a jewel thief hiding within its midst.
Check out what they did with the Heparin. I wonder if they are still looking for one single ingredient that tainted the lot, instead of realizing the whole damn lot is tainted. The ironic thing is when you go to the Health Canada website concerning Heparin, it says to refer to the USFDA. We are frigging doomed. Heparin is a blood thinner.