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In my short 28 years I can't remember a time when fast food joints, and restaurants pulled a product for health reasons, and now its happened twice within a year (spinach and tomatoes). What the hell is going on? Are the american people so flaky that they jump on the fear band wagon and pull products across the nation, or has the efficiency machine reduced the standard of care to a point where we are one janitorial sneeze away from a national outbreak of the plague.

Fear of lawsuits.
Customer is exposed to 24 hour bug at 10:00 a.m., visits local burger joint at noon. Goes home and shits himself half to death that night. Next day sues burger joint for millions 'cause they knowingly served tainted tomatoe slice on his gutbuster deluxe.

litigation, it made a politicians out of Edwards, Obama, Hillary well you get the idea- because the government has its hands all over things it has no business or legality doing it is incapable of doing the things it is actually chartered to do- it started with the dems and has been expanded by Bush's idiocy- Vote the bums out-all of them with NO exceptions

people don't get enough food poisoning, keep you thin, last trip to the hospital I had from it I lost about 15 lbs.

Grow your own!!! cheaper, better, and bigger!!

besides who knows how many times this has happened in the past and it got no coverage because folks did not run out and sue as L K Day pointed out. Mass hystaria and ignorance coupled with greedy folks and lawyers, bad combo.

how good is mass quality control?

yeah, I was heading down to the gorge with a friend and told him the tomato scare was utter bullshit. He was not buying my opinion.
I did not buy the spinach scare either.
The problem is not litigation; it is that people are just scared out of their minds. Consider the odds.

167 cases. there are 301,139,947 in the USA. 23 cases resulted in hospitalization with zero deaths. The odds that you get Salmonella from Tomatoes are vanishingly small--less than 1 in 10 million.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7579419
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Of the 167 cases reported, 23 have resulted in hospitalization.
Health officials in Texas investigated the death of a man who had been infected with Salmonella Saintpaul but ruled that the cause of death was cancer, according to the Houston Department of Health and Human Services.
Ian Williams, chief of the CDC's OutbreakNet Team, said one of the interesting features about the scare was that it has not been associated with any specific restaurants or grocery stores.
The outbreak -- linked to raw plum, Roma and round tomatoes -- has hit the $1.28 billion U.S. tomato market hard.
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Caribe - I was going to edit my post to suggest that consumer fear was even a greater factor than fear of litigation in this whole thing, then I saw that you had that pretty well covered.

the only fear we have is fear itself and the low % that we may actually be a statistic? good to know that out of billions of muslames only a % actually hate us

Don't forget the lamestream media who love to stoke public fear to push ratings.

Crankmas wrote:the only fear we have is fear itself and the low % that we may actually be a statistic? good to know that out of billions of muslames only a % actually hate us

90% of statistics are made up on the spot. just something to keep in mind.