Gothamist: Salmonella Tomatoes Have Hit New York City

kearnj

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:48:01 -0500

So the salmonella is actually impregnated in the tomato? How interesting. I mean, I've been using cow shit for fertilizer for years.

sonyactivision

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:34:42 -0500

You people are tomatoist! Your comments should be deleted because you're clearly bigoted towards innocent fruits/vegetables that cannot defend themselves. And for those in the know, Salmonella makes a delicious vinaigrette.

Rocknrope

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:12:18 -0500

Sounds to me like a promo for M. Night's movie.

tingo

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:32:08 -0500

More lax agricultural oversight on behalf of the Bush administration's appeasement to lobbyists. We need more in the budget to fun the unjust war. I'd rather pay an extra few cents for the diligence of making sure feces doesn't mix with my vegetables.

pete

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:06:48 -0500

What happened to washing your food before you eat it? My great great grandma decided to go taste testing like some kind of princess at the local market and got cholera and shortly died.u

ANGRYGOD11

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:20:04 -0500

Think of all this as an opportunity: A ruthless army of salmonella-tainted tomatoes and John McCain comes to town. Just saying...

Snoopy

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:46:34 -0500

Missed you slappy. Hope everything came out all right.

just_saying

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:39:29 -0500

Last night the TV newscaster said that it could be 1-3 days after eating a tomato before an individual becomes ill (symptoms similar to the flu). If that's the case, I guess salmonella poisoning is different than food poisoning. With food poisoning, the symptoms are almost immediate.

JMH

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:57:16 -0500

Given that there's all of one person in the city with salmonella, isn't it possible that there was some mishandling of raw meat rather than contaminated tomatoes?

slappy

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:51:59 -0500

I was down for the count for 5 days last week with what I thought was food poisoning. It finally let up; but man, that was gruesome.

interlard

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:45:01 -0500

I believe these outbreaks are more frequent and it's because food production is increasingly more industrialized, less "natural" and short-cuts are taken to drive costs down. We need better food safety laws to enforce minimum standards.

Toby von Meistersinger

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:41:41 -0500

This is why you should buy your tomatoes from the greenmarket.

ilovejapgirls

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:33:00 -0500

it's the chinese i'm tellin u

CD

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:26:51 -0500

jimmylegs: I believe it's from animal feces being carried by either irrigation or rain from where animals are kept to where food is being grown. Does it seem like this sort of thing is happening more often, or is getting reported more widely? Does the fact that food is travelling such long distances from the farm to the plate make these outbreaks more widespread and harder to pinpoint and contain?

jimmylegs

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:06:41 -0500

that dude is awesome! has anybody even been able to explain how all this produce is getting dosed with bacteria normally associated with meat? read hubert selby's "waiting period," this could be a terrorist attack ...

Snoopy

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:00:31 -0500

It appears the happy go lucky guy in the photo ate several of them prior to the photo shoot.

Ph

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:18:08 -0500

That picture is worth a million. "BEHOLD THE OFFENDING TOMATOES!"

edEx

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:14:06 -0500

grow your own!