date:Jun 18, 2021
A new FDA report details how airborne contamination can spread pathogens from farms and animal operations to fruit orchards. In the summer of 2020, over 100 people got sick in a major Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak that food safety experts linked to peaches. However, according to national foodborne illness records dating back 50 years, there had only ever been three other peach-associated outbreaks in the United States, and none of them involved salmonella.
Its not just the fruit that was atyp