Raw Tomatoes Linked to Salmonella

By Michelle Fabio

Recent reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have warned that some outbreaks of salmonella infections over the past fifteen years have been linked to raw tomatoes.

While the overall odds are low that you would contract salmonella infections from raw tomatoes, the CDC estimates that there may have been up to 79,000 such illnesses from twelve multi-state outbreaks since 1990.
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