CNN video: Tomato farmers hit hard

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CNN has posted a web-only video report follow-up to the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak, from a tomato producer slant.   There unfortunately isn’t an easy way to embed the CNN video here, but click here to see it.

Jimmy Shaffer of the Island Tomato Growers in South Carolina was cited as saying that he plans on maybe filing a lawsuit against the FDA for the way that the investigation has been handled, and that the FDA "threw everybody under a big blanket and let everyone fight for themselves". 

Makes marketing food safety, if you can prove what you are doing, look like a pretty good idea.

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.