US to Ban Mexican Food Imports in Salmonella Probe

[Suzie]

US to Ban Mexican Food Imports in Salmonella Probe, CNN Says (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ayyir90AGoiY&refer=home)
Bloomberg - USA
The US Food and Drug Administration originally theorized that tomatoes were the source of the salmonella poisoning, which has afflicted 943 people in 40 ...

You would think the places we get our food would have to have the same clean water standards that we do here.

[DeclinetoState]

Will we able to keep salmonella-infested food from Mexico out of the U.S. as well as we keep, ahem, other things?

[Beowulf]

Wait a minute! How can this be! Piss off our Mexican "friends?" How unthinkable!

[Riverboat]

It's a safe bet that nonuvem are going to try to sneak across the border in a tomato truck for awhile.

[DesertFox]

Gotta start checking immigrants for salmonella.

[Wolfcounsel]

I say declare amnesty for salmonella from Mexico. We can't hope to round up ever bit of food that has been here.

HAHAHA!! My ass we can't! We can round up all the illegal cockroaches also, as a side project.

[Suzie]

I am not so sure. If they can't even figure out whether it's tomatoes or jalapenos or cilantro, I don't have much faith in their efforts to find anything ... even with both hands and a flashlight.

[DesertFox]

Salmonella cannot survive in an environment of jalapeños. Hell, I myself barely survive them!