Is anyone surprised that the samonella outbreak has been traced to Mexico?

Question

Is anyone surprised that the samonella outbreak has been traced to Mexico?

Answer 1

Years back children were dieing from strawberries.   California law states that all strawberries in public schools need to be from California.   They found the kids were dieing from E-coli, because a packer violate the law and sold Mexican Strawberries.  We have laws to ensure that facilities are available for them.   WE have bettter sanitation for our water supply.  

THe greater problem isn't Mexico, but how farm goods are handled.   Factory farming has made matters bad.   That's what happen to our spinach.  One batch of spinach was contaminated, but since over 80% of spinach is processed in one location, that small batch contaminated all the spinach.  

AS far as we know, we have not pin down the origin of the infection.  WE do know the peppers came from Mexico, and the processing plant is  right at the border.  McCallen Texas.   .

Answer 2

Okay,,,  I seriously doubt the people of Mexico had some crazy conspiracy to give us all a tummy ache......

It could of happened anywhere.

Answer 3

And those dirty Americans that had the salmonella outbreak with the spinach last year.

Answer 4

hey... it's capitalism at work...

who needs government restrictions when the market will regulate it's self?

hahaha...

I always find it funny how cons really have no actual faith in capitalism... when it matters...

"oh, we're getting sick... big government save us from capitalism!"

"oh, mortgages are bombing... big government save us from capitalism!"

Answer 5

Two weeks ago, it was tomatoes, it may even still be cilantro.

Two weeks now although there have not been any records of salmonella outbreak in Mexico, we're supposed to believe that salmonella found on ONE jalapeno in a Texas warehouse is suddenly the source of appr. 1500 cases of salmonella? Even though there is not, as yet, a single case reported in Mexico?

My company goes through a lot of jalapeno peppers as well as serranos; we've had no difficulties, yet a lot of our peppers have come from Mexico... I must note though that we cook all of our products, so salmonella isn't as much of a concern as it would be if we were to make raw products.

Scientists figure out where plants originated historically based on the proliferation of their species... That said, wouldn't Mexico be the highest proliferation of salmonella if indeed this outbreak came from there... or perhaps even Canada since the majority of our peppers come from Mexico?

This information from the New Mexico Chile Task Force...

Mechanism of Contamination:

Produce can become contaminated with microbial pathogens by a wide variety of mechanisms at many points in the food chain:

• during production or harvest,

• during processing,

• at the retail, food service level, or

• in the home kitchen.

Contamination at any point in the chain can be exacerbated by improper handling and storage of a product prior to consumption.

In other words... FRUIT FLIES can transmit it from one fruit to another. In a warehouse full of fruit from both Texas AND Mexico, we are to believe that one single pepper that tested positive for salmonella is the only source?

The Texas plant, Agricola Zaragosa, recalled its fresh jalapenos, although it is not considered a major processor. So, now I'm curious... why isn't EVERY fruit AZ handles being recalled? Something is fishy and I'm not convinced it's the peppers.

As for avoiding fresh peppers or tomatoes for that matter... just cook them well. Getting the food up to 140 degrees is sufficient to kill salmonella.

Fwiw, unless the label says "fresh salsa", it's probably been cooked.... ours is.

Answer 6

no, considering that the farm workers use the fields instead of an outhouse.