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Food Network Fan · 06-23-2008, 06:27 PM

Salmonella can ride water into tomatoes

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer 2 hours, 11 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Pick a tomato in the blazing sun and plunge it straight into cold water. If that happened on the way to market, it might be contaminated. Too big of a temperature difference can make a tomato literally suck water inside the fruit through the scar where its stem used to be. If salmonella happens to be lurking on the skin, that's one way it can penetrate and, if the tomato isn't eaten right away, have time to multiply.

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Food Network Fan Suzie (Site owner) Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: West Virginia Posts: 10,725 Recipes: 14 Blog Entries: 3 Rep Power: 10	Salmonella can ride water into tomatoes By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer 2 hours, 11 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Pick a tomato in the blazing sun and plunge it straight into cold water. If that happened on the way to market, it might be contaminated. Too big of a temperature difference can make a tomato literally suck water inside the fruit through the scar where its stem used to be. If salmonella happens to be lurking on the skin, that's one way it can penetrate and, if the tomato isn't eaten right away, have time to multiply. MORE HERE __________________ Suzie Click here to visit Suzie's table.