Kay Anonymous

Great! Just splendid! Just as the peak "salad season" gets here. When do you suppose they will publish anything about WHERE these tainted tomatoes are grown? sold?

They gotta know more than they are telling us right now...they a-l-w-a-y-s do!

:::Doing a search on SaintPaul's:::

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Kay Anonymous

Dirty tomatoes... Both large and Roma are implicated.

36 folks in New Mexico confirmed...21 in Texas. Who knows how many in the other 7 states? Wouldn't be surprised if it's bigger than this. Can you say "spinach"?

COOK your raw tomatoes for 15 seconds (at least) at 145 degrees F, to kill salmonella --- this is what they are suggesting.

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DC Anonymous

I know where you can get some! Staphylococcus works well, too!

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rozy Anonymous

its definitely bigger! We came thru Dallas airport en route to Hawaii on May 12th and ate raw tomatos in an airport restaurant on a chicken salad sandwich! my partner was sick for 4 days - diarrhea, stomach cramps... -- basically the entire time we were in HA! i think they owe us another trip!

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Kay Anonymous

Wal-Mart is the only store I recognize in the articles, so far. (Unless Lowe's actually sells tomatoes in Texas)

http://thepacker.com/icms/_dtaa2/cont...

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Kay Anonymous

rosy, I agree! That's just awful! How often does one get to Hawaii? You might do some investigating on compensation from the headquarters of the 'eatery' at the Airport.

(I understand Quiznos sandwich place also had a similar problem last Fall with tomatoes on their sandwiches.)

This STARTED the end of April and we are just now hearing of it. The usual delay. How many folks have eaten them since April 23? This always makes me furious. (I almost didn't survive the horrors of the long-drawn-out pet food recalls last year.)

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Kay Anonymous

rozy,

FWIW: http://tinyurl.com/4puz8f

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rozy Anonymous

I think we should report it. They at least need to know that alot of people could have been affected, from all over, just from going thru that airport!

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rozy Anonymous

thanks Kay. When an over $4000 trip is ruined from someone's neglect or apathy, i think compensation should be in order!

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DC Anonymous

They'll probably tell you that you should have had traveller's insurance.

How would you plan on proving that the food at the airport was the culprit? Maybe you drank some sour milk at home before you left or contracted a viral gastroenteritis when the airline attendant gave you a soda. Also, was it the tomato or the chicken salad?

Maybe if it was reported immediately someone could have taken some samples from the proposed site. By now, may be too late.

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Scott Anonymous

Tomatoes are naturally high in glutamate and, therefore, should not be eaten, whether cooked or raw.

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DC Anonymous

I think the whole bible - apple thing may have just been a metaphor for tomatoes.

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Scott Anonymous

Citation: http://tinyurl.com/6bwyzw .

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DC Anonymous

EXACTLY

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Kay Anonymous

Scott Doyle,

Zero. None. Never sued anyone. No one in my family has ever sued anyone to my knowledge....or (knock on wood) ever been sued.

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Kay Anonymous

DC, I see your point.

If the report had come out "in a timely manner" rather than waiting ( the customary? ) 6 weeks after the first illness, folks would know of the tomato problem and either choose not to eat them or know right away what the possible cause might be when illness starts and and get it reported.

I think/hope if everyone that ate the tomatoes at the airport says something even at this time, there should be a way for someone to figure it out.....especially if the source of the tomatoes was a Wal-Mart (or Sam's?). This goes back to April 23 at least.

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Kay Anonymous

rozy,

Your welcome. Hope you have lotz of photos you'll be able to enjoy again....or for the first time.

Aloha

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Kay Anonymous

Scott Doyle,

Tomatoes have a bad rap? Say it isn't so. They are so good for us.

Check out this if there is any undue concern over the glutamate in tomatoes:

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-1...

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Kay Anonymous

FOUR VERY GOOD REASONS TO EAT TOMATOES:

http://tinyurl.com/6m4nuf

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pnewsgal Anonymous

Bought one tomato yesterday at Central Market before I heard the news story. Wonder if they'll tell us who the suppliers are before it goes bad (the tomato, not Central Market).

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pnewsgal Anonymous

Kay ~ I'm still wary of buying fresh spinach. Bought some yesterday (only a second time since the recall) to make a nice salad with the tomato. I guess growing your own is the way to go nowdays. I'm trying my hand at a mini garden with a few tomato plants and watermelons.

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Kay Anonymous

'gal, Not a bad idea, growing your own veggies. My wonderful grandfather grew ours when I was a little kid...Right at the front of the garden were several of those "cherry tomato" plants. I never saw them any place else of course so I thought they just grew wild like that. No wonder he always had a "green salad", I was eating all those cute little tomatoes.

Whether the store will provide information on your recent tomato purchase or not, maybe you would want to go ahead and do the "COOK your raw tomatoes for 15 seconds (at least) at 145 degrees F, to kill salmonella --- this is what they are suggesting." idea....and then peel that sucker before you stick it in the salad. :o)

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Kay Anonymous

'gal,

NBC5 has reported that Central Market is removing tomatoes from their store shelves .... just in case.

http://www.nbc5i.com/health/16475862/...

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Kay Anonymous

Pavel,

http://tinyurl.com/5wtkth

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Kay Anonymous

MORE CASES OF SALMONELLA from tomatoes:

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/arti...

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Clay213 Anonymous

Everyone seems insane.

I ate tomatoes last night. And then I ate tomato sauce too.

Stop spraying animal sh*t on food and we wouldn't have this problem.

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Kay Anonymous

James Scott,

Good question/point. Seems the only time we find out anything for sure regarding the food industries is when people/animals are being poisoned by it.

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12ozfred Anonymous

I heard on the news that some restaurants have started to serve COOKED tomatoes...they didn't mention fresh, cold tomatoes though. That may be the reason we are seeing tomatoes back on the scene. But hot or cold I'm still passing!!!

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