is this disease IN the tomatoe?...or on the outside......I’ll be danged if I ‘m going to give up on tomatoes just because of some scare....tomatoes are my favorite vegetable....
Tomatoes are my favorite too, but they’re a fruit! :O
I would bet on the outside. Contamination comes from illegals locked in with the produce for days at a time. The ‘maters can be whistle clean as they pass border inspection only to be shat upon a few miles down the road.
I'm pretty sure that it's on the inside, drawn up into the tomato as it grows in salmonella infected soil. It gets inside the plant through the root hairs and once inside it just keeps multiplying. You should always wash your vegetables, but in this case it won't solve the problem.