On 12/19/2014 9:44 PM, Nancy Young wrote:

>
> 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

I saw how they are made on Food Factory. The apples had a couple of
cleanings. Maybe this outfit took a shortcut or the bacteria was
introduced at a later point. Plenty of possibilities.