3 Kansas Cases Of Salmonella Identified

KDHE and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend the following:

* Avoid purchasing bruised or damaged tomatoes and discard any that appear spoiled.
* Thoroughly wash all tomatoes under running water.
* Refrigerate within two hours or discard cut, peeled or cooked tomatoes.
* Keep tomatoes that will be consumed raw separate from raw meats, raw seafood and raw produce items.
* Wash cutting boards, dishes, utensils and counter tops with hot water and soap when switching between types of food products.
* Wash hands for at least 20 seconds with soap and warm running water after handling raw foods, before eating and after using the toilet.

Heck, even McDonald's is getting into the swing of things.

A New York Times article (among other good tips) advises returning suspect tomatoes to the grocery store, or throwing them away. What happens to salmonella upon composting, though? Would the heat of an active compost pile kill it, or would it spread throughout the pile and by extension the garden upon which the compost is spread?

Not happened in the UK I think most of the Tomatoes imported into the UK come mainly from Italy and Spain

Any "Local UK" produce I expect will be coming from Lincolnshire
Story has not been posted yet in the UK Press

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Originally posted by bedstor:
Story has not been posted yet in the UK Press

It was in the Daily Mail, in typical Mail style' viz. a big headline of salmonella risk in tomatoes, serious outbreak etc but you had to read on before discovering that it wasn't happening in Britain

It was also in The Guardian and on the BBC web site.

In the Grauniad , eh? As what? "Solomon Ella in potatoes "? They had the 'Democractic Unionists' in their main headline today

Oh stop!
I once knew somebody that named their children Sam and Ella.