Grimmway Farms is the California-based produce company at the center of an ongoing carrot recall that's connected to a nationwide E. coli outbreak.

No, the CDC does not list Tennessee as one of the affected states in the E. coli outbreak. However, neighboring states Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, and Arkansas have been affected.

Grimmway Farms has recalled its organic carrots after health officials linked them to an E. coli outbreak. A woman who was hospitalized sued the company this week. Putting enemies of science in charge of science policy is a formula for mass injury and death, history reminds us.