On 2014-12-19 23:43:06 +0000, Nancy Young said:

> On 12/19/2014 6:09 PM, wrote:
>> On Friday, December 19, 2014 2:19:03 PM UTC-8, sf wrote:
>>> Don't they wash those apples?
>>> http://wn.ktvu.com/story/27671390/pr...ed-to-5-deaths
>>>
>>
>> I suspect those were windfalls that pickers put in their boxes anyways.
>
> Right. Still, drops or not, they should have been washed.
>
> I have bought some expensive pre-made caramel apples by mail.
> You like to think they were washed before the other stuff is
> added.
>
> nancy

Can you wash away all traces of a bacteria? Somehow I doubt it.

Everything is a risk.