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July 1, 2008, 7:05 pm
Flag as Inappropriate DianaR  

It looks like the tomato scare may have been a little premature.

Apparently, health officials are now looking at other causes because the number of new cases isn't falling as expected.

Do you think it might be another ingredient that is common to all of the outbreaks or could it be that all 810 known cases of Salmonella poisoning could have been due to mis handling of the food?

I think it might be something else. I bet all of these people used a product in the kitchen that was supposed to clean a surface, and it isn't actually killing the bacteria as promised.

What do you think?

I don't know what the cause of the latest outbreak is but when it comes to using products to sanitize at home, most don't do much. It's not that the products don't work because most of them do; unfortunately, most people just spray and wipe and that won't kill the bacteria. The solution needs to sit on surfaces for up to five minutes (depending on product and what you are trying to kill for germs) and very, very few people actually do this.

I find this rather alarming, but not surprising. You have to wonder when they are not able to track it, that they don't really know what it is.

I don't think it's a sign of people not sanitizing well enough. We don't use sanitizers, just hot soapy water, and we've never had an outbreak of food-borne illness.

I'm not sure but the fact that it is a uncommon type of salmonella makes it all the more troublesome that they can't figure it out. I do still think it has to be something we've brought into the home and not simply a lack of cleaning.

I hope that they have it figured out soon. I don't eat tomatoes, so that wasn't a problem for us, but if there's something else contaminating the food we eat I'd like to know asap. Scary stuff!

The one time my lack of eating tomatoes has worked for me!

I don't eat them either so I guess we are in the same lucky boat. I do worry that people don't sanitize when they should and really don't think about the consequence's after their job is done, your right its very scary stuff.

Now I read somewheres that they are blaming jalapeños peppers. I wish I would have paid more attention to where I saw this, but I am guessing you could do a search in Google and find it easily enough.

I dont know what to think about this. I am tired of hearing about the situaton, I just want it to get sorted out sooner rather than later.

Word now is that the problem could be in Jalapenos as well as Cillantro. Infected Jalapenos were just found in a place in Texas.