As Inside United Fresh readers know, this past summer’s Salmonella saintpaul outbreak and resulting investigation by state health officials, CDC and the FDA highlighted major inadequacies in the way outbreaks are investigated and reported. "From mistaken assumptions and false starts to a continuing refusal by some to recognize the hard evidence that tomatoes were likely never the cause of this outbreak, we’ve got to ensure that both government and industry identify what when wrong and make changes so that this doesn’t happen again," said United President Tom Stenzel. Stenzel will present a review of those lessons to the National Restaurant Association’s Food Safety in the 21st Century Conference tomorrow in Atlanta. "This is an important chance to share the facts with a wide audience of foodservice leaders influential in making changes for the future," he said. Stenzel has previously testified before Congress about what went wrong, and United has made a commitment not to allow the memory of this flawed outbreak investigation to fade away until the real problems are fixed. "When an FDA official said during our Town Hall meeting in Washington, DC last month that this outbreak would defined as a "two-commodity" outbreak, caused by both tomatoes and jalapeno peppers, we knew that our industry could not afford to let ignorance and suspicion be recorded as history," he said.