Salmonella probe likened to 'Keystone Kops'

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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 illnes ...
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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