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Bribes let tomato vendor sell tainted food
It’s like a bad Lifetime special movie event: Randall Rahal, a New Jersey businessman who acted as a broker for SK Foods in peddling crappy tomato paste, recounted how he would drop a $100 bill on the...
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Subway sandwiches, where do you get your fresh ingredients? 34 sick with...
Fresh produce is yet again suspect as the Subway chain has voluntarily withdrawn lettuce, green peppers, red onion and tomatoes after a bunch of people got Salmonella at a bunch of Subway stores in...
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Salmonella in grape tomatoes: lotsa drama, not much data, third-party audits...
Canada has to make the simplest things mindnumbingly confusing and bureaucratic. Who has four federal elections in seven years? On April 29, 2011, Six L’s of Immokalee, Fla. voluntarily recalled a...
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55 sick with salmonella from tomatoes in EU
Denmark’s Statens Serum Institut has been investigating an outbreak caused by Salmonella Strathcona. This serotype has not previously been detected in Denmark, and it has never before been recognized...
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Salmonella-in-tomato outbreak 2006 redux
A new paper in Epidemiology and Infection revisits a 2006 outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to tomatoes served at various restaurants that sickened 190 — even a Canadian. The authors write that...
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‘If there’s a cow within the next galaxy, they’re not going to buy;’ tomato...
Doug Ohlemeier of The Packer revisits an early Feb. 2012 meeting of tomato growers, shippers, repackers, buyers, regulators and auditors in Florida to pull out a few golden quotes. Billy Heller, chief...
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Do audits and inspections make food safer? Sometimes, or not; Florida tomato...
Florida tomato grower, packers and shippers may, according to The Grower, finally get some relief from audit fatigue caused by having to undergo several different food safety inspections required by...
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Regardless of regulation, actually employing best practices matters
A lot of folks in the food system are concerned about the potential for FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), and associated rules, to negatively impact businesses. There’s been a bunch of...
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Effects of post-harvest handling conditions on internalization and growth of...
Journal of Food Protection®, Number 3, March 2014, pp. 352-521 , pp. 365-370(6) Zhou, Bin; Luo, Yaguang; Nou, Xiangwu; Yang, Yang; Wu, Yunpeng; Wang, Qin...
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Unlabeled irradiated Australian tomatoes now on NZ shelves
New Zealanders are being urged to once again ask their retailer if their tomatoes have been treated with radiation, as, according to this story, large volumes of unlabelled irradiated Australian...
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Salmonella transfer potential onto tomatoes during laboratory-simulated...
Florida Tomato Good Agricultural Practices (T-GAPs) mandate the removal of dirt and debris from tomatoes during harvest but do not provide any specific regulations or guidance; thus, the current...
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Going public: Salmonella, tomatoes (not) and court
Summer 2008 was adventurous for us: Amy was pregnant, we were in Quebec, and I was handling endless media calls about Salmonella in tomatoes that sickened at least 851 people in the U.S., including a...
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Local doesn’t mean safe; tales of tomato woes
“I’ve been promoting local my whole life, but I’m thinking now that we may have shot ourselves in the foot. Michelle Obama asked us to grow gardens, and I believe everyone did.” So say shippers like...
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Mexican tomatoes Salmonella positive
Fresh-cut roma tomatoes grown in Mexico and distributed to Costco by Boskovich Farms Inc. may have been contaminated with salmonella and are part of a voluntary recall Expo Fresh LLC initiated in...
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As always, more research required: Study analyzes tomato production practices
Doug Ohlemeier of The Packer writes that tomato production practices don’t significantly affect bacteria levels and the study’s results point to the need for additional research, according to...
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Controlling Salmonella cross-contamination in tomatoes
Tomato Best Management Practices require Florida packers to treat tomatoes in a flume system containing at least 150 ppm of free chlorine or other approved sanitizer. However, research is needed to...
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Food safety dominates first day of Florida tomato conference
Doug Ohlemeier of The Packer writes that during the opening day of the Florida Joint Tomato Conference, participants heard how the state’s tomato good agricultural practices and tomato best management...
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64 sick: Tomatoes fingered as Salmonella source in Minnesota Chipotle outbreak
As the number of Americans sick from Salmonella linked to Mexican cucumbers reached 418, tomatoes have been identified as the source of a Salmonella outbreak linked to Chipotle restaurants in...
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Salmonella on tomato leaves
Thirty years ago, I was a graduate student inoculating different lines of tomatoes with Verticillium wilt. I hated it. So I became editor of the student newspaper. But those plant pathogens and...
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E. coli and Salmonella in tomatoes
Salmonella serovars have been associated with the majority of foodborne illness outbreaks involving tomatoes, and E. coli O157:H7 has caused outbreaks involving other fresh produce. Contamination by...
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