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Oh, really? Stores & distribution centers/warehouses save no documentation? We are required by law to keep ALL shipping docs for a certain number of years, as well as every warehouse/distribution center in the USA

Maybe you and I could dial the passion back a notch or two.

Yes the BOLs have some details on them that are useful for traceability. But if you will recall, you said the farm was on each box. That is great, if you have the original carton, which you probably won't.

During the 2008 event, competent people used the current data and tried to figure out the source. The 257 sick people implicated the entire tomato industry...because the tomatoes were not the cause. I suggest that if the PTI had been implemented at the time, they would have concluded that tomatoes could not be the cause within a few days of the original sicknesses. That would have saved tens of millions of dollars in destroyed produce.

You seem like a knowledgeable guy. If you were to target (as a terrorist) the produce industry, could you not basically destroy the whole industry for months at a time? Then we are not talking about tens of millions, but many billions of dollars. Not to mention long-term damage to the industry (some people would be afraid of fresh produce.)

When that tomato scare came out, I immediately knew it was bogus and I contacted my reps in DC and asked them to request the Depts to check into foreign produce coming over the border through TX, Nogales, AZ, Calexico & National City, Ca.

Any reputable produce warehouse & grocer carefully documents each and every pallet of product. If there is more than one product on th pallet, the pallet is broken down so that there is only one product per pallet and that includes all those lovely prepackaged salads. Each type has its own pallet. The label placed on each pallet must coincide with the product number on the master list that includes product number as it is shown on the box & the individual prepackaged items in the box. People out there not following these govt guidelines are the problem and only make it costlier to those of us who do.

So again I say: ‘Horse Hockey’. This story is nothing more than the statist & progressives libs attempts to panic the public, just like they are doing over health care & global warming. It is a HUGE false flag and I will not sit back while we are turned into a complete nanny state, including what we put on our dinner plates.

Wash your produce & poultry thoroughly, wash your hands but especially, wash all cooking surfaces including cutting boards with a solution of 1 TBSP bleach to 1 QT of water after preparing vegetables & meat. I keep a bottle next to my sink at all times.

It is nothing more than ‘Common Sense’.