On 12/19/2014 9:28 PM, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
> On 2014-12-19 23:43:06 +0000, Nancy Young said:

>> 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.

> Can you wash away all traces of a bacteria? Somehow I doubt it.
>
> Everything is a risk.

Of course, but there shouldn't be several people dying from
eating a product. Can't say as I wash apples that I buy all
that carefully, and I don't hear about people routinely getting
very ill from eating them, either.

But I'd expect a commercial place to be putting the apples
through a bath of some sort that would kill germs before processing
them. Otherwise we'd be hearing a lot more stories like that apple
juice business, and these caramel apples.

nancy