MMM i this next article is making me hungry especially some chips and salsa and guacamole! all tooo good. anyways after reading this article i started to pay more attention to these things at resultant. but i still love guacamole dip and I'm sure i will continue eating it just with a little more cation.
Better put down that tortilla chip.
Contaminated salsa or guacamole were the culprits in nearly 1 out of every 25 foodborne illness outbreaks linked to food in restaurants between 1998 and 2008, according to new research released today by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That’s more than double the rate during the previous decade, CDC officials said.
“Fresh salsa and guacamole, especially those served in retail food establishments, may be important vehicles of foodborne infection,” said Magdalena Kendall, a researcher at Tennessee's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education who collaborated on the study.
Part of the problem is that individual ingredients in salsa — peppers, tomatoes, cilantro — all have been linked to widespread salmonella outbreaks in recent years.
Kendall and her colleagues scoured CDC records for salsa- and guacamole-linked outbreaks starting in 1973, when the agency began surveillance. They didn’t detect any until 1984. Of the 136 dip-related outbreaks they found, 84 percent were tied to restaurants and delis.
Between 1984 and 1997, salsa- and guacamole-linked accounted for about 1.5 percent of all food establishment outbreaks. From 1998 and 2008, that figure rose to nearly 4 percent, the CDC said.
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Wow, good thing I don't like guacamole! But I do LOVE salsa. I'll have to be more cautious about eating it. Everything in moderation!
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