Now it’s the tomatoes that are contaminated by salmonella.
An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has now been reported in nine states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
Lab tests have confirmed 40 illnesses in Texas and New Mexico as the same type of salmonella, right down to the genetic fingerprint. An investigation [...]
Archive for June 3rd, 2008
Salmonella Laced Tomatoes
Posted in Food & Drink, Health, tagged food safety, hydro-aeroponics, salmonella, tomatoes on June 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Speculator Manipulation of Oil Prices
Posted in Bizness, Criminality, Economy and Business, Energy, US Senate, tagged energy crisis, gas prices, oil, speculator manipulation, speculators, US Senate on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my previous post, I mentioned that the quickly rising prices of oil go back to the speculators on Wall Street (all the “Wall Streets” around the world, that is). From all this so-called speculation, it appears to be more about manipulation. A few people make mega-bucks trying to push the price of oil up, [...]
Up, Up and Away! Gas Prices That Is
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hold onto your dashboards, gas prices at the pump is rising again.
Retail gas prices set a record high for the 26th time in the past 27 days, motorist group AAA’s Web site showed Tuesday.
AAA reports the national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline rose to $3.978. That was up 0.3 cent from [...]
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