WASHINGTON: Salmonella probe likened to ‘Keystone Kops’ - (Los Angeles Times)
July 31, 2008 – 10:34 pmWASHINGTON — The government bungled the salmonella outbreak probe so badly, a House committee chairman said today, that federal investigators reminded him of Keystone Kops. A colleague hoped the maligned tomato can get its good name back.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee conducted its own investigation of the Food and Drug Administration’s investigation of the salmonella scare. The outbreak has sickened more than 1,300 people this summer and set off a consumer scare that cost the produce industry more than $200 million.
One agency probably zeroed in on tomatoes too early, the committee concluded, while a second failed to tap industry expertise in trying to trace the source of the contamination.
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