Posted on 06/08/2008 3:49:11 AM PDT by Pharmboy
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) Salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has spread to 16 states, federal health officials said Saturday.
Investigations by the health departments of Texas and New Mexico and the federal Indian Health Service have tied 56 cases in Texas and 55 in New Mexico to raw, uncooked tomatoes.
Were seeing a steady increase, said Deborah Busemeyer, the communications director for the New Mexico Department of Health.
An additional 50 people have been sickened by the same salmonella infection in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Investigators are trying to determine if raw tomatoes are also responsible for the illnesses in those states, said Arleen Porcell, a spokeswoman for the C.D.C.
The source of the tomatoes responsible for the illnesses has not been determined.
At least 23 people have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported, Ms. Porcell said.
The rarity of the salmonella strain and the number of illnesses suggest that implicated tomatoes are distributed throughout the country, she said.
Cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, tomatoes sold with the vine still attached and homegrown tomatoes are likely not the source of the outbreak, Ms. Busemeyer said.
Salmonella, snip...usually is transmitted to humans who eat food contaminated with animal feces.
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Now that I live in NJ, I appreciate the most excellent tomatoes that come from The Garden State. However, prudence still reuires good washing...
have no fear ~ with all the ILLEGALS corslime & the lib/dems allow in NJ...the ILLEGALS will crap and contaminate the produce here as well......
the solution is simple....but no lib/dems - jorge bush...juan mccain...or b. HUSSEIN will call for deportation!!!
We drove to an Amish farm Friday afternoon. He was supposed to have some strawberries for us, but we were late so he had already sold them. He did have some tomatoes! The ones in our garden are still weeks from ripening, but he had about 8 that he had just picked. Nothing finer! We also got a couple of pounds of yellow summer squash which will go on the grill this afternoon along with some burgers and dogs.
He had a grand time wallowing in the dirt all day, building forts, playing with his Tonks Trucks and he was never sick.
Exactly. And all of these sanitizers that kill 99.9% bacteria amaze me, it is the 0.1% that will kill you.
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Except for the grower/distributor. And that's the biggie.
The reason you don't see the big ones at your local supermarket is because they are shipped to where they get the biggest $.
Salmonella is not a plant disease.
Space-station experiments could hold key to food-poisoning vaccine
Just saw the notice in a Florida McDonalds yesterday. Said although “certain kinds of tomatoes” were withdrawn from the market in NM and TX, they’ll stop using tomatoes in ALL mickey d’s across the USA. Now I know why.
Just sprayed my tomato’s with “Messenger” yesterday, today I’m getting out the epsom salt solution and giving them a good spray.
Epsom salt prevents blossom drop and adds sodium for bigger tomato’s. I tried it last year on my hot peppers and they were huge!
They cultured her at the hospital and determined it was the St. Paul variant. Stay away from round and Roma tomatoes. Cherrry, grape and the variety that you buy on the vine at the grocery are testing ok.
Saw that...we're growing our own this year.
And since you asked, Elvis was at Lake George last weekend and my 21 year old daughter loves him so we went up for the show(s)
She took this pic.
I was trying to figure out what brand of “Tomato Spread” was dangerous.
LOL!
I was twirling around on my front porch and my hand hit a big barrel cactus. A giant cactus thorn went in my finger by the nail all the way to the bottom of the nail.
That required a trip to Cedars-Sinai where a surgeon used local anesthetic to use long pincer pliers to pull out the thorn.
First I heard about it was Friday. Jason’s Deli had a sign up that they weren’t using them.
Easier said than done. I tried this year and got one!
My local McDonald’s is affected. They have a sign that no tomatoes are being served.
My Mcdonald’s is in Georgia.
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