Salmonella scare prompts grape tomato recall

Posted by Joel Leusink on May 3, 2011 under Ozone food | Be the First to Comment

News report:

Taylor Farms Pacific, Inc., a California-based food supplier for six retail chain stores, has announced the recall of grape tomatoes produced by a grower who said the vegetables might be contaminated with salmonella.

The recall applies to 29 brand-packaged salads sold at Albertson’s, Raley’s, Sam’s Club, Savemart, Signature Cafe and Wal-Mart, the company said in a statement Monday. The affected products have expiration dates ranging from April 27 to May 9, according to the news release.

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This is another great application where aqueous ozone quite possibly could have prevented a costly recall.  Aqueous ozone is commonly used directly on food products during washing or packaging as an antimicrobial intervention step. While ozone cannot fix all microbiological problems, reading stories like this does make you wonder what role we could have played.

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