What temp do I need to heat tomatoes to kill salmonella?

145 degrees http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080610/ap_on_re_us/sa...

CHECK YOUR TOMATOES

The Food and Drug Administration is advising people to eat only tomatoes not associated with the outbreak: cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, tomatoes sold with the vine still attached and tomatoes grown at home.

Preliminary data suggest that raw red plum, Roma, or round red tomatoes are the cause, according to the FDA.

"The best thing to do if you have those certain types of tomatoes, throw them away or take them back the grocery store," says Karen Blakeslee, an extension associate in the food science program at Kansas State.

For other tomatoes, wash thoroughly and cut away the part that is attached to the plant and the button on the other side, says Julie Miller Jones, a professor of nutrition and food science at The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minn. That part can carry a foodborne illness because it's a hard area and organisms can attach themselves to it, she says.

Cooking tomatoes at 145 degrees will kill salmonella.

i would hate to waist tomatoes too but their is a Chance that those tomatoes have salmonella, and in that case health come before anything, what if you cook the tomatoes but maybe not enough and you get salmonella.

I bought a package of roma tomatoes over the weekend before the news spread on this outbreak, since i read that same article about cooking it at 145 degrees will kill it, i think http://www.instructables.com/id/Roasted-Tomatoes/

would be a good recipe to try out. see if you like it. I love tomatoes, and wouldn't want to waste the ones i bought either.

At 140F it takes about 15 minutes to completely kill salmonella while at 160F it takes about 10 seconds.

confident salmonella is easy in uncooked fowl. cooking will kill it. confirm you do no longer place any cooked foodstuffs the place uncooked nutrition has been. additionally, something you have decrease the tomatoes on/with needs to be washed etc. until now the different ingredients are arranged. the trick is to no longer bypass-contaminate

On yahoo i was watching they say u cook it at155f and they

r good to eat.

i say 140' F for atleast 10 mins and then it is safe to eat

if you can get it to 165F for 10 minutes, you'll kill anything