Over the past three months, the nation has been told by the FDA not to eat certain types of fresh tomatoes due to an outbreak of Salmonella saintpaul; which now totals over 1,000 confirmed individual cases in 42 states and the District of Columbia at last count.
Neither the CDC nor the FDA, the two Federal agencies responsible and accountable to the American public for these matters, has been able to accurately identify the source of the outbreak, let alone definitively whether or not tomatoes were the responsible vehicle which caused the disease.