Don’t eat any raw Roma, plum, or red round tomatoes or any products made with them unless they are on this list – they could be contaminated with a rare type of salmonella (Salmonella Saintpaul), warns the Food and Drug Administration. Until now, the warning was limited to just a few states.
The FDA says it’s okay to eat cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, and tomatoes sold with the vine still attached, or tomatoes grown at home.
Since mid April, a salmonella outbreak has made 145 people sick across the country, including 23 who had to be hospitalized. States reporting illnesses linked to the outbreak include: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, frail or elderly people, and those with weakened immune systems. In healthy people, symptoms include fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. If you have recently eaten raw tomatoes or foods made with them and have any of these symptoms, call your doctor right away.
The FDA is still investigating how this outbreak started.
Love the tomato information. Please, stay on this story FatFighter!
Keep us posted on the source and how our food supply keeps getting tainted.
Also, why are there so many tomatoes included in this recall? Is it because the problem is so widespread? How could that be?
Or perhaps it’s because the government just can’t figure out what exactly is tainted currently and what isn’t, for the moment?
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Sorry…few typos…I didn’t have my glasses on and I was watching “Countdown w/ Keith Oberman”.
Or maybe it was just the adverse affects of tainted toms.
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This is scary! My hubby and I both got sick last week after eating salads. I now believe the culprit was the tomotoes. Yuck.
Well, I guess it’s time to start planting. Sometimes I think that with more “stuff” in foods, that growing your own is going to come back in style big time. Next fall, my family is going to join one of those community farms, where you get fresh vegetables once a week.
On the bright side, at least we can still eat cherry and grape tomatoes and tomatoes on the vine ! Yay.
Wow, DC – sorry to hear you got sick. That is scary. It is disturbing that we keep having these contaminated foods in our stores and restaurants, isn’t it? I like the community farm idea, niwa4me2 – I wonder if they have one here? And hb – I will definitely stay on the story.