This so-called tomato epidemic?

I am wondering if anyone else finds this tomato scare hard to believe. Where are the intellectuals on this subject? The FDA's explaination about how the salmonella enters the tomato is very hard to swallow. 23 people go to the hospital and this is a nationwide epidemic? The FDA also claims that people are having a hard time remembering what exactly they had eaten, then how do they even know it involves tomatos? Why do they not want us to eat tomatos?? Anyone??