None of the workers at the facility would eat the tomatoes. Not sure what that says.
Expiration date can refer to a lot of things. Expired antibiotics for example turn into useless junk, if not worse.
The major problems I have heard about have been psychological medications, Prozac and the like, causing
reproductive problems for oysters.
I haven't taken so much as a Tylenol for years. My father eats 4-5 Advil a day.