On 2016-07-01 10:38 AM, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 05:33:57 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
> > wrote:
>
>> Lucretia, it is not only the Mexican farms' water, but their fertilizer.
>> Some recalls in the past of fresh produce have been because of
>> e-coli....
>>
>>
> For e-coli, I'd blame producers for not washing the tomatoes properly
> before they started turning them into ketchup.
>


E coli is in the water and tomatoes are mostly water, so it will be
inside. FWIW... salmonella seems to be a much bigger problem with them,
and washing the outside does not help. However, ketchup is made from
tomato paste, so it has already been well boiled.