I've heard something about it too, but I don't understand it. Surely they're not saying that the very flesh of the tomato is contaminated?

On last night's news they said that cooking the tomato quickly kills the salmonella and that, of course, tomatoes on the vine and tomatoes in one's back yard are fine, as are cherry tomatoes and grape tomatoes, the latter two by virtue of not being implicated in the current outbreak.

They said that the first indication of their being a problem came about in late April, which would mean that those tomatoes had come from Florida or Mexico. Nowhere else do we get tomatoes that early in the year.

But they also surmised that the problem is wider than that because of the many regions affected.

But back to the original thought: Surely the flesh is not contaminated?