How Does Salmonella Get on Tomatoes?

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As with e. coli, the media seem to blame vegetables (spinach,

scallions, now tomatoes), but the culprit is the farming of animals

for meat, especially factory farming.---Dan Brook

 

 

 

How Does Salmonella Get on Tomatoes?

 

 

 

As the food industry has rapidly grown in the past 35 years, the study

said, the FDA has cut inspections by 78 percent. Now, inspectors visit a

given food manufacturing plant once a decade; no inspectors visit farms

or retail sales outlets, reports chron.com

 

Many people, concerned about food and tomato safety ask questions on how

it is that tomatoes can be contaminated with salmonella. We usually hear

of salmonella being a problem with raw eggs and poorly cooked meat.

 

Here's what I found. Animals infected with salmonella don't show

symptoms. So when they eliminate waste, the salmonella that was in their

intestines in now in the manure that unsuspecting farmers use to

fertilize fields.

 

Usually the process of composting the manure kills most bugs. Usually...

not always.

 

Of course, animal waste can get into fields in the form of run-off from

contaminated water supply systems and infected animals that sneak in and

relieve themselves.

 

Crops are washed after they're harvested to control this sort of thing,

of course, but when they go to the packing plant, if one batch is

contaminated, it can contaminate others. Especially when the tomatoes

travel a long way and have plenty of time to grow more bacteria to share

with the healthy <#> tomatoes on board.

 

Reported by Latina Viva Health

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