Salmonella Outbreak Due To Tomatoes

[Rudyjohn]

McDonalds pulled sliced tomatoes from all of the US stores until this is resolved. Still serving the grape tomatoes in their salads as it is unrelated, but that ought to put some teeth into fixing things. They must go through a lot of tomatoes.

grape tomatoes just don't cut it for me. We wait sooo long for such a short tomato season.

 

[Lady D]

grape tomatoes just don't cut it for me. We wait sooo long for such a short tomato season.

It turns out the source of the tainted tomatoes were South Florida and Mexico.

 

[ASH]

Wasn't there a thread on here a while back about Taco Bell or someone talking about dropping their South Florida source for tomatoes because the growers were asking an additional penny per pound in an attempt to supplement the living standards of the workers?
Probably didn't get that penny a pound and decided not to work so hard. Now look what happened to the tomatoes. :shock:

 

[SHELLY]

Probably didn't get that penny a pound and decided not to work so hard. Now look what happened to the tomatoes. :shock:

I think they didn't get the penny so they decided to cut costs by cancelling their Porta-Loo contract.


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[Smiling JOe]

Take it from someone who has experienced a bout with salmonella...you don't want to take any chances with this monster.

Refraining from eating a product until it is cleared by the powers that be certainly trumps finding yourself laying on the bathroom floor praying to die just so you can feel better.

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Or, you can get the tomatoes from a reliable, locally-grown source.

Robert, let's say the salmonella bacteria is on the outside of the tomato, due to unsanitary hands picking the tomatoes. The tomato contaminates other tomatoes and everything with which the tomatoes comes into contact. The tomatoes hit the blade of the knife as they are being chopped, and the salmonella is now on the inner parts of the tomato, and possibly every tomato cut by that knife or blades.