date:Oct 31, 2018
i (three), Bacillus cereus (two), and thermo-tolerant coliforms (one). For eight outbreaks the pathogen responsible could not be determined.
The most common food vehicles implicated were generically named as fruits and vegetables (46.6 percent of outbreaks). The term salad was used generically and specifically like salads (two outbreaks), raw/cooked salads (four outbreaks), vegetable salad, tropical salad, Caesar salad, and a raw salad of cabbage and tomato.
Only one outbreak was related exclu