Frankly speaking, innocent people are not permitted to spread disease.
No doubt finding one pepper WITH SALMONELLA ON THE INSIDE is just "one pepper", but NO PEPPERS are allowed to have salmonella on the inside.
Gotta' be a darned good explanation for that one.
Given that the earliest findings involved salsa, which is made out of TOMATOES and PEPPERS, going after the tomatoes and then the peppers made sense.
I'm sure the pepper sample size has been substantially increased now that the "detection sampling" stage has been found to be productive.
That will leave the Mexican pepper growers squealing like pigs.
It's not exactly helping American pepper growers, either. Look what happened to the US tomato growers because of the overblown hysteria caused by stupid bureaucrats and their media lackies.
Thank you for your post.
The distinction is twofold: First, a leper, in fact, has leprosy. Second, leprosy is contagious.
A pepper grower in New Jersey who was de facto banned from selling his crop, never had anything to do with the salmonella Saintpaul — as the FDA has now admitted.
Second, Salmonella is common, with an estimated 1.4 million cases a year. Most people do not get sick enough to bother going to the doctor or hospital. They don't get sick at all unless they eat the salmonella. People can further protect themselves by making sure their food is cooked well.
Your comment about salmonella on the inside or outside is actually reversed. Salmonella on the inside would be very serious — it would indicate that Salmonella was internalized in the growing process, a question on which there is great debate as to its feasibility in field — not laboratory — conditions. Salmonella on the outside of a pepper -— or anything else — may or may not mean anything. Someone could have been cutting chicken and not washed his hands thoroughly and put the Salmonella on the exterior of a pepper.
As of today — July 26, 2008 — no further positives have turned up and the FDA won't tell us the number of negatives which we would expect are now well into the thousands.
Appreciate the contribution.
Jim Prevor
http://www.PerishablePundit.com