Here we go.  Goes to show what I've been saying.  People don't pay enough attention.  We have a huge salmonella outbreak resulting in one of the largest recalls in the history of the FDA and most Americans have NO CLUE what it affected.  I'll admit, I didn't go and make myself an expert on all 1900 products that were dangerous and potentially tainted, but I DID do enough research to find out that as long as I bought brand-names for a while, I'd be good. 

This survey shows that all together too many Americans are avoiding peanuts of all kinds in any shape.  This is the thing that I was complaining about with the whole tomato scare last year.  After the spinach deal the year before, most people still won't eat fresh spinach, and the industry is still crippled.  Tomatoes are undergoing the same stigma, and they weren't even the reason people got sick; jalapenos from ONE location were the culprit. 

I really applaud the FDA for getting to the bottom of this one so much faster than the tomato incident, and they deserve recognition for getting the word out as quickly as they did.  But I really feel that they dropped the ball on their responsibility to protect the industries that they supervise.