How bad has America’s food poisoning epidemic become? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDPC, it kills at least 3,000 of us yearly and afflicts one in six persons, or almost 17 per cent.

That’s 48 million Americans who are sickened by the food they buy, often with nausea, cramps, dehydration, fever and bouts of diarrhea.

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Americans are being sickened by tainted eggs harboring salmonella food poisoning. But even non egg-eaters may be sickened by the news of how the food system failed them.

In its probe of two Iowa plants from which 550 million eggs were recalled, the federal government has found staggering evidence of manure, rats, flies and other insects contaminating the egg supply.

At Wright County Egg (owned by the ironically named Quality Egg), manure was piled so highly around the hen house that doors could not be closed. At Hillandale Farms, rodents ran rampantly, escaped hens tracked manure into the hen house and liquid manure was found seeping from a manure pit.

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First, peanut butter. Then, tomatoes. Then, peanut butter again. Now, pistachios?

Before you say “Nuts!” to all nuts, keep in mind they may be fine. But until the Food and Drug Administration completes a probe into possible salmonella food poisoning in pistachios, the feds are advising Americans to squirrel away those nuts until the “all clear” sounds.

That advice isn’t aimed just at pistachios themselves, but at any product which contains them, from trail mix to ice cream. Again, it may not be contaminated. But since those products have a long shelf life anyway, why not wait until the FDA has proven them A-OK?

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