Salmonella outbreak linked to raw tomatoes strikes about 150 - (USA Today)
June 8, 2008 – 6:36 pmThe Food and Drug Administration said Sunday that 145 to 150 people in 16 states have been sickened by salmonellosis, which has been linked to the consumption of raw red tomatoes.
David Acheson, director of the FDA’s Food Safety and Security Staff, was quoted as saying, “We’re trying to get an answer as quickly as possible as to where these tomatoes came from.
It’s not something that you’d want. It’s going to land you with two or three days of a lot of discomfort.”
Cooking tomatoes at 145 degrees for at least 15 seconds will probably kill the bacteria.
Simply washing tomatoes can help, but it won’t necessarily remove the salmonella bacteria, because when tomatoes are picked on very hot days and put into cold water to chill, salmonella on their surface can be drawn up into the fruit.
That doesn’t mean the public should stop washing produce, Acheson says. “If there is […]
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