If you’ve been to any restaurant or grocery store this week, you’ve probably been confronted with the case of the disappearing tomatoes. Every day it seems more places are pulling their tomatoes “just to be safe.” Though the tomato contamination has been cleared in 17 states, many restaurants and businesses that have stores across the U.S. are still pulling them, even if they are in one of those cleared states. The reason is because they ship from other areas and sometimes boxes get mixed up and mixed in with other boxes and there’s just too much potential for bad things to happen.

Signs confront customers with the fact that tomatoes have been pulled due to an FDA warning. In fact, the FDA is only warning that red plum, red Roma and red round tomatoes could be dangerous. Therefore, some places like Wendy’s are still selling their salads with grape or cherry tomatoes.

But the impact of the tomato contamination can have a longer-term impact on the tomato growers. It is especially frustrating for the growers who have their harvests in the safe states. Some buyers aren’t paying attention to the fact that those “safe” tomato harvests are safe—perhaps because of public fears being generalized to all tomatoes.

The hope for all involved is that the source of the contamination will be resolved soon, so that the problem may be corrected and the rest of us can get back to enjoying all varieties of tomatoes in our meals.