I came home from the farmers' market last Tuesday with a couple of pounds of tomatoes. To some folks, that makes me a brave or foolish man.
So far more than 1,000 people have officially been sickened by the latest salmonella outbreak. But, health care professionals say that in such estimates, for every reported case of sickness, more than 30 go unreported. This means something close to 40,000 people have been sickened to some degree.
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Kevin Weeks is a Gather food correspondent (Paisano), personal chef, cooking teacher, and writer in Knoxville, Tennessee who spends too many hours on his feet, cooking. "Paisano" is a column focused on peasant dishes from around the world. To read more of Kevin's writings or connect to him click here. His blog,Seriously Good, is read by 100,000 cooks a month and in addition he writes a weekly column forSpot-Onand is the Guide for Cooking for Two at About.com.
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JoAnne,
Nope, but it is confined to commercial tomatoes such as you get at the grocery or in restaurants.
Sarah,
Yeah, while 1000 people in a country our size isn't much, 40,000 is.
At this point all the lawmakers in the world would not be able to untangle the mess of red tape that the government has woven through the years.
Unfortunately the little farms are the ones that fall through the 'sieve'
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Then there's the co-mingling while processing, so that if stuff from one farm has theBadThing it spreads it around quite efficiently. It's an insane way to deal with a safety issue.