Salmonella Tomatoes

You Say Tomato, I Say Heirloom

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 09.12.2008 | Green


Josie Garthwaite

Green Zebras, Mortgage Lifters, White Wonders, and other heirloom tomato varieties are taking American palates by storm this week. At least 52 San Fra...

Our Broken Food Safety System

Julian Brookes | Posted 09.12.2008 | Green


Julian Brookes

The US food system is by most accounts one of the safest in the world, but there's evidence that food-borne disease outbreaks are becoming nastier, more frequent, and more widespread.

Tomatoes

Jeff Danziger | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics


Jeff Danziger

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Tomato Growers Report Salmonella Scare Damages Industry

AP | STEVE SZKOTAK | Posted 07.27.2008 | Business


RICHMOND, Va. — The 6,000 acres of tomatoes grown on Virginia's sea-swept Eastern Shore were never implicated in the national salmonella outbrea...

Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Peppers

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living


WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 people now have become ill from salmonella initially linked to raw tomatoes, a sobering milestone Wednesday that ma...

Salmonella Investigators Focus On Jalapenos

Baltimore Sun | Jonathan D. Rockoff | Posted 07.13.2008 | Business


Investigators are seeing more signs that the salmonella outbreak blamed on tomatoes might have been caused by tainted jalapeno peppers and have begun ...

Lou Dobbs Stomps Out the Smoldering Match

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media


Robert J. Elisberg

Lou Dobbs is a bright, thoughtful, concerned and caring. The shame is that too often he tends to get distracted from using those qualities together when a microphone is placed before him.

Something Is (Still) Rotten In Food Oversight

Al Meyerhoff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics


Al Meyerhoff

From spinach to tomatoes, E.coli to salmonella, despite public uproar, congressional hearings and industry promises, nothing really has changed but the bug and the vegetable (fruit actually).

Dobbs: Impeach Bush Over Tomatoes

Huffington Post | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media


Thursday night, Lou Dobbs called for George Bush's impeachment over his mismanagement of the Food and Drug Administration which has, in Dobbs' view, u...

CDC: Salmonella-tainted tomato illnesses reach 228

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — The toll from salmonella-tainted tomatoes jumped to 228 illnesses Thursday as the government learned of five dozen previously unkno...

Our Food Sucks And You Know It

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green


Allison Kilkenny

Americans can't fix their unhealthy eating until supposedly "healthy" food is clean of bacteria originating in diseased cows.

Tomatoes Coming Off Of Some Menus Due To Salmonella Scare

Reuters | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business


Top restaurant chains are taking some tomatoes off the menu, hoping to avoid the tomato Salmonella scare. ...

Salmonella In Tomatoes: It Wasn't California Or Florida

Posted 06.19.2008 | Business


Tomatoes grown in California and Florida are safe to eat, according to U.S. health officials investigating a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 167...

Salmonella In Tomatoes Causing Food Poisoning In 16 States

AP | MATT MYGATT | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has spread to 16 states, federal health officials said Saturday....