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Rep Power: 10 | Food Detectives Track Source Of Salmonella Scare
. Food Detectives Track Source Of Salmonella Scare  CBS 2 Chicago - Jun 19 4:01 PMScientists and food inspectors remain baffled by the tomato salmonella scare. As CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports, finding the initial cause of the tainted fruit is like detective work.
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06-21-2008, 10:26 PM
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Rep Power: 10 | We went to one restaurant on our trip and my husband wanted a pizza that had tomato slices on top and they still were not using tomatoes so he picked something else.
Then we went to a mexican restaurant and they put tomatoes on my taco.
Panera also put them on my sandwich for lunch one day.
So it seems some are still not using them and some are. Maybe if they have a local source they know they can trust they go with them?
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06-21-2008, 11:53 PM
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Rep Power: 10 | Yes, out here (Oregon) they are using 'local' sources which mean British Columbia.
Not exactly the farm down the street, but not Florida or Mexico. They guarantee they are fine to eat without any ill effects. I bought some on vine at the farm today from BC.
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06-22-2008, 12:38 AM
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Rep Power: 3 | I still can't get over the fact they still haven't found the source.
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06-22-2008, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Chefnot  I still can't get over the fact they still haven't found the source. | Apparently fruits and veggies are not tracked as carefully as meat products.
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06-23-2008, 01:07 AM
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Rep Power: 3 | Well I was in that line of work for a while (produce,) on a commercial level. Part of my job was the company's recall system. I could tell you where every skid of product came from and where it went. That was about thirteen years ago, I would have thought it would have gotten better.
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06-23-2008, 06:11 AM
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Rep Power: 3 | And I might add, those weren't government requirements/regulations (the recall program,) which of course what everyone is hollowing for now. The recall program was required by the companies we were doing business with, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Burger King, ect. Lot's of people have lost a ton of money over this deal and I assure that will lead to changes without the government. But that's just my $.02.
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06-23-2008, 05:27 PM
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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
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06-23-2008, 05:44 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | If they are not able to track the source, how do they know it is the tomatoes ? that is causing the poisoning ?
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06-23-2008, 07:56 PM
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Rep Power: 10 | We have tomatoes at work again. Wednesday night on the road I got a chicken sandwich from McD's, no tomato. We went to Panera both in Bowling Green, KY and in Indianapolis over the weekend they both had tomotos. Then I had McDonalds again in Merriville, IN yesterday and it had a tomato on it. Its confusing to know which are good and which aren't. We've been opting to have no tomatoes on our sandwiches or taking them off if they come on.
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