CHICAGO June 10—After federal health officials’ work to find the source of a multistate outbreak of food poisoning due to salmonella, Wal-Mart, McDonald’s and other U.S. chains have pulled over sales of some raw tomatoes.

Some other restaurants like Burger King, Taco Bell and Outback Steakhouse have also excluded tomatoes from their menus after federal recommendations of avoiding red plum, red Roma and round red tomatoes no matter in what state and country they were grown.
On Monday, McDonald’s Spokesperson Danya Proud stated that McDonald’s Corp is no more serving its sandwiches with sliced tomatoes as a preventative measure till the recognition of the source of the food poisoning. She further told that the Oak Brook, III-based Company will keep serving grape tomatoes in salads as no problem has been associated with that kind.

It has not been identified which source of the tomatoes is a factor behind illnesses in 16 states.

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Food poisoning

FDA reported that almost 23 people in 14 different states were identified with salmonella related food poisoning.The contamination, which caused food poisoning, was found in Malt-O-Meal’s breakfast cereal and the company ordered back voluntarily after a usual lab test on March 24 when they found salmonella bacterium in these cereals.

Breakfast cereals

These breakfast cereals were distributed under several brands like Food Club, Acme, Giant, America’s Choice and Jewell besides Malt-O-Meal’s trademark.The mentioned manufacturing and expiry dates on these cereals were from April 08 to March 09.
The cases of food poisoning were found in different states including Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Minnesota, North Dakota, Delaware, Maine and Colorado.There are reports of such cases from other states too but it has been not confirmed yet these cases are also related to the cereal.

Salmonella bacterium

Salmonella bacterium is usually found in humans and animals’ bowels and it remains active even after passing through stool.In humans this infection occurs due to contaminated food that is not cooked properly.

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