The Associated Press reports today that the deadly salmonella outbreak appears to be over, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But, as predicted here on bthesite.com back on July 18th:

But, my guess: we may never know with absolute certainty what actually caused the salmonella outbreak. The FDA is losing whatever shred of credibility it had left.

In the Associated Press report, the FDA’s food safety chief says, “We have not identified the total source of this.”

So, we’re left with unanswered questions and blame falling partially on Mexico. What a shock.

Jalepeno and serrano peppers were blamed, especially ones that originated in Mexico.

OK, seriously? The salmonella outbreak was not some little tiny thing that the media blew out of proportion. The U.S. tomato industry lost an estimated $250 million when they were preliminarily blamed but later cleared. (Although, now the FDA says they can’t officially say that tomatoes were not to blame.) A record number of people were sickened — 1,400, according to the Associated Press.

And yet, we still don’t have clear answers.

So, again, we’re left with uncertainty the next time we pick up some fresh produce — or even worse, some cloned meat that may not even be labeled as such, as PBS’ Newshour reports.

The FDA is an inefficient, incompetent and untrustworthy government organization that is badly in need of a major overhaul. The implications on Americans health are enormous, the degree of which we may not know for quite some time until people start developing even more cancer and ailments from food we are eating today.

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