Salmonella... Anyone?
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 02/07/2017

Back in early 2016, I was shopping at a local Coles supermarket when I heard a lady over the PA say “Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, we have a super special on salads. They’ve all been marked down to less than half-price!”. I walked over to have a look-see, as did many other people, and there we could see bags of four leaf salad mix and the like (normally around $3.00) going out for about 40 cents! Even so, not one person bought a bag. “Why?” you may ask. Well, it’s because we had recently had a salmonella outbreak in Australia. Naturally, the big supermarkets had lots of stock on hand as nobody wants to risk getting sick just to have some convenient salad mix. Many of these salad mixes state on the label that the vegetables have been washed and are ready to eat. Apparently, the water used to pre-wash the vegetables was contaminated with salmonella, causing the latest outbreak. You might think that washing the salad again at home can help, but a recent article states that washing pre-packaged produce at home could increase exposure to salmonella. Over the years, pre-packaged salads have often been at the centre of food-poisoning outbreaks. I guess lettuce leaves and the like are just not suitable for shipping long distances and then being put on supermarket shelves. Back in 2015, frozen berries were responsible for an outbreak of Hepatitis A. Many of them are still being sold at half-price to this day. I’m still very hesitant to buy any, though. It was discovered that the berries were imported from China where the hygiene in the berry-packing factories was found to be sub-par.

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