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>Health authorities have issued the highest risk level to tomatoes recalled for potentially containing deadly bacteria. Last month, Williams Farms Repack LLC voluntarily recalled several sizes of its vine ripe tomatoes after they were found to potentially contain salmonella. On Wednesday, the FDA gave the recall a Class I designation, its most dangerous classification. This means 'there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.' The recall covers shipments from April 23 to April 28 sold in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

**States: Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.** Archive: https://archive.today/Zpp42 From the post: >>Health authorities have issued the highest risk level to tomatoes recalled for potentially containing deadly bacteria. Last month, Williams Farms Repack LLC voluntarily recalled several sizes of its vine ripe tomatoes after they were found to potentially contain salmonella. On Wednesday, the FDA gave the recall a Class I designation, its most dangerous classification. This means 'there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.' The recall covers shipments from April 23 to April 28 sold in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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The risk of death from Salmonela is extremely low and likely virtually zero in an otherwise healthy person (i.e. one with a reasonably functioning immune system). You will probably, for the foreseeable future at least, see these sort of hyperbolic warnings about previously minor problems, because a large part of the population have significantly damaged immune systems from the jabs. Normally, the sort of people who die from Salmonela very young, very old or very sick.

From the Cleavland Clinic (https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15697-salmonella):

You’re at an increased risk of getting salmonella if you:

Live or work around high-risk animals. This includes chickens, ducks, turtles and lizards. - Take antacids or recently took antibiotics. These medications lower your defenses against salmonella and make it easier to get sick. - Live with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The damage caused by IBD makes it easier to get an infection. - Are under the age of 5.

You’re at higher risk for serious illness from a Salmonella infection if you: - Are over the age of 65 or under the age of 12 months. - Have a compromised immune system (due to HIV, chemotherapy or other illnesses or medications). - Have sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease puts you at risk for osteomyelitis, a rare complication of salmonella.

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I agree, a recall is a recall though and if I can avoid getting a little sick for a few days I will happily toss that into compost and leave it be.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Yep, a recall is definitely warranted if Salmonela is detected above the permissible threshold. But the language in their report is extremely hyperbolic to the point of being designed to induce panic.

"there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death."

To the lay reader, a "reasonable probability" would likely be read as something like >50% chance and the consequence they are inferring that has a "reasonable probability" is "serious injury or death". That is objectively false. The language also indicates that this reasonable probability WILL cause the undesired outcome.

Ingesting food that is contaminated with Salmonela would have a reasonable probability of resulting in a Salmonela infection, which most people probably would not even notice (no noticeable symptoms), some may develop diahrea and a very small proportion could develop serious complications including death if they are at particular risk.

Ideally, the warning would have outlined the category of people at particular risk. I.e. the very young, very old and immunologically infirm.

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Yeah, clickbait is clickbait. Then again, with all of the c-vaxed out there maybe they are far more likely to have problems than the non-c-vaxed? Some study just came out saying that getting the flu vax (even for old people) increases your chances of getting the flu by like 26% or something like that.

I stopped getting it the second my parents could not longer force me to get it. I got sick every single time I got the flu vax. Since I stopped getting it decades ago... Maybe like 2-3 times? Not every single damn year.