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CDC and FDA are wearing a little tomato on their face

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There are limits on free speech. Hollering fire in a crowded theater is perhaps the better known one. There should be another.

Take the tomato industry, or what is left of it in Florida. Everyone wants the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration to keep us healthy and protect our food supply. However, after a few hundred cases of the Salmonella Saintpaul virus, the agencies scripted a horror plot one could call "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." This despite having absolutely no proof that tomatoes were even involved. All they had was a weak connection based on interviews with victims about what they ate the previous week.

According to the CDC, there are 40,000 cases of salmonella poisoning each year in the U.S. This outbreak resulted in a little more than 1,000 cases so far. The disease is rarely fatal and generally requires no medical treatment. It is usually transmitted by fecal matter on or in things like eggs and poorly cooked meat but also hitches a ride on vegetables, water and even ice cream and milk.

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