Restaurant Law Group

Tommy Irvin
Tommy Irvin, the state agriculture commissioner for Georgia is telling the FDA, “wait just a jalapeno-pickin’ minute, now,” when it comes to the Feds’ advice to throw away all their jalapenos.
Irvin is convinced that his state’s jalapenos are just fine, thank you very much, and he’s taking the extraordinary step of sending out teams [...]

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David Acheson
FDA lead investigator David Acheson explains on NPR how the FDA didn’t exactly get it wrong in their salmonella search, pinpointing tomatoes first, and now investigating jalapenos. He maintains the tomatoes were guilty, but now all of the suspect crop has been either eaten or destroyed.

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