Salmonella in tomatoes
Posted by deneb7 on June 9, 2008
Just heard about the salmonella outbreak in tomatoes. Here’s a list of sources that are cleared:
The FDA has cleared tomatoes from these regions, saying they are not associated with the outbreak: Arkansas, California, Georgia, Hawaii, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Belgium, Canada, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Israel, The Netherlands and Puerto Rico.
Several restaurants have pulled raw tomatoes off of their menus, just in case. Basically, just avoid eating it raw unless you know where it’s from… though of course if you want to be extra safe, you can just not eat tomatoes 
There was also some news on west nile infected mosquitos detected earlier than normal.. apparently the higher number of foreclosures have increased # of unattended pools.
That and the warm weather has increased mosquito breeding. The advice — wear long sleeves and bug repellent when out, especially at dawn/dusk.
dracil said
Heh, I thought something might be up when I saw one of the restaurants I was at yesterday had a sign saying they were not including any tomatoes for safety reasons.
I’ve never really seen mosquitoes here in the Bay Area.
deneb7 said
That’s because you’re always in SF where it’s perpetually cold or at least, not warm enough for mosquitos. They breed mostly where there are standing pools of water and where it’s warm.
dracil said
Even when I was in Berkeley I pretty much never saw mosquitoes too.
dracil said
Or Milpitas for that matter.
deneb7 said
Hmm…well, Berkeley is like SF except a couple degrees warmer and more sun. Though if you went to strawberry creek you’d see flies and such. Huge swarms of them actually, if you go at the right time.
I think maybe you’re mostly in the extra crowded downtown/city areas where mosquitos are less likely to hang out/survive?
If there are no trees and water/natural landscape around, and it doesn’t get that warm(as in 85 and above), it’s also highly unlikely to see mosquitos.