The Wall Street Journal’s Jane Zhang, Julie Jargon, and A.J. Miranda join forces for a look at the Food and Drug Administration’s failure to trace the origin of a salmonella outbreak. The outbreak has sickened 810 people over the past month, but it’s still not known where the bad tomatoes came from. In fact, it’s not even totally clear that tomatoes are causing the salmonella poisioning.

Consequently, the restaurant and supermarket industries say they’re losing millions. Perhaps this unsolved problem can have the silver lining of better regulated growing, processing and shipping for tomatoes and other staple foods.-MB

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