Tomatoes and salmonella

From:

Elizabeth A. Bihn, Senior Extension Associate in Cornell Food Science

E-mail: eab38@cornell.edu

www.gaps.cornell.edu

I think the questions {county educators} are likely to get asked are things such as what types of tomatoes are involved, so which ones can I eat, what is salmonella, what are the symptoms, etc.

This FDA website is good and answers most things. http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/tomatoes.html

For more information on Salmonella (in general, not the specific saintpaul strain) go to the bad bug book and look under Salmonella: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

If there are more specific things I will be happy to help, but in general I think these two sites are good. CDC also has some good information.

I do want to specifically mention that home grown tomatoes grown in home gardens are not implicated.

Hope this helps.

Betsy

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    [...] Tomatoes and salmonellaThis FDA website is good and answers most things. http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/tomatoes.html. For more information on Salmonella (in general, not the specific saintpaul strain) go to the bad bug book and look under Salmonella: …Community Horticulture - http://blogs.cce.cornell.edu/community-horticulture [...]

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