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Old 22-06-2008, 01:53 AM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
Tom J Tom J is offline
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Default Salmonella outbreak in Texas and New Mexico

Laura from MomsRetro.com wrote:
How come FedEx can tell you exactly where your package is at all
times, but we can't figure out where these tomatoes came from?


There is no bar code on each tomato. They come to the packing houses
from farms from miles around, no bar code added, then shipped to
distribution warehouses, repackaged again into the size containers the
retailer requires before reaching the retail floor where they get a
bar code - price only!! BTW, they have a large crew in Florida
searching for the source now. Have you heard the term, "looking for a
needle in a haystack"?

Tom J