Here's the beginning of the article.. but the main information is contained within the link. (this is one of my favorite "women" sites, but this info is non-gender specific:
It’s hard to miss the food headlines these days — E. coli on our spinach and now salmonella in tomatoes and jalapeños. I’m always telling my patients to eat fresh veggies, but with press like this it’s no wonder women are frustrated! I read a quote the other day from a former FDA official who said that “produce is produced in a very complicated system... making it very, very difficult to trace a given tomato back to its source.”
Since when did growing and selling vegetables become so complicated? Not to mention the antibiotics and hormones in our eggs, beef and chicken, or the mercury in our fish. Believe me, I know it can be overwhelming to decide what to eat. It’s sometimes enough to throw your hands up in defeat. But please don’t give up — there are ways to navigate through these complicated everyday food choices. And many times the answers come by simply following your instincts.