Salmonella probe likened to 'Keystone Kops'

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR , Associated Press Writer, Medicine & Health / Diseases

House Energy and Commerce subcommittee Chairman Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., holds up a tomato during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 31, 2008, on the recent salmonella outbreak. Tomatoes were initially suspected of causing the illnesses but it was later determined that peppers were the source/ (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

(AP) -- The government bungled the salmonella outbreak probe so badly, a House committee chairman said Thursday, that federal investigators reminded him of Keystone Kops. A colleague hoped the maligned tomato can get its good name back.

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Posted by Falcon 08/01/08 13:23

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Posted by jeffsaunders 08/04/08 19:36

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Two things were needed a lot earlier and a combined organisation was not one of them.

1) Investigation that led to tomatoes as probable cause would/should also have come up with a short list of probable cause.

2) Publication of ways and means to protect oneself from Salmonella in the case in the cause was a fruit or vegetable in the short list.

Perhaps recommend that everyone wash fruit and vegetables before consuming them would have stopped the spread a lot sooner.