Tomato preparation?

I guess if I had been in your owners shoes I might have jumped the gun to....nothing like poisoning customers to kill a business...but ,you are right Samonella is found on raw foods.and the cooked tomatoes were probably okay....but,I guess with cleaning out the entire stock you eliminate any threat of contamination.

Cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, tomatoes sold with the vine still attached and homegrown tomatoes are likely not the source of the outbreak, Busemeyer said.

Also not associated with the outbreak are raw Roma, red plum and round red tomatoes from Arkansas, California, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Belgium, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Israel, Netherlands and Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Association.

Cooking tomatoes kills salmonella as well.

ok firstly, cooked tomatoes should be done daily just to be safe, secondly do you use the same board to cut up meat and vegetables without washing, or do you have seperate boards for each product, and thirdly your boss wouldn't have lost that much money, but its still annoying to have to waste product like that. Ah and also were their reports of salmonella in your tomatoes or in the batch of tomatoes that he had brought, what I mean is did every restaurant who brought tomatoes have to throw theirs out aswell

If the tomatoes were just blanched or sauteed, then they weren't cooked long enough, at a high enough heat, to kill salmonella. Also, if you just washed them in water, that wouldn't kill salmonella either ......Your boss knows best. The amount of money you lost was insignificant, compared to a lawsuit for damages resulting from illness or death

The alert referrs to only raw, uncooked tomatoes of certain varieties. Washing will not eleiminate the samonella, it could be from the water or fertilizer used in growing them. So far only a few states have been affected.

I don't think they will loose.. their accountant will post it as a loss for tax reasons..

But if I remember only a very small area on the east coast was affected.. I hope your boss contacted the FDA or USDA

http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/dfbmd/disease_listing/sa...

My my Fox News (Dr Rosnthal) just covered this issue

By all means you should have been covered. But I understand his concerns. Maybe he is thinking better safe than sorry.

But, yeah, he lost some money.

Yeah you lost money, but it is better safe then sorry, even if you cook them.

i wasnt aware that you could have samonella in tomatoes

you learn somthing new everyday