{"id":3856,"date":"2009-10-12T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australiantropicalfoods.com\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2014-03-20T05:17:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:17:02","slug":"semi-dried-tomato-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/semi-dried-tomato-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-dried tomato warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Where do your semi-dried tomatoes come from?<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dried-tomatoes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3859\" title=\"dried-tomatoes\" src=\"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dried-tomatoes-400x330.jpg\" alt=\"dried-tomatoes\" width=\"162\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An outbreak of hepatitis A has been linked to contaminated semi-dried tomatoes in Victoria with about a dozen Victorians diagnosed with hepatitis A this week.<\/p>\n<p>Experts from the Department of Health fear a rerun of May&#8217;s spike in the disease in Victoria and South Australia that was associated with the consumption of semi-dried tomatoes. The virus is spread when traces of faecal matter contaminate hands, objects, water or food and are then taken in by mouth. Victoria&#8217;s Chief Health Officer, Dr John Carnie, said that while the new outbreak was being investigated people should avoid eating &#8220;raw&#8221; semi-dried tomatoes. &#8220;People who may have semi-dried tomatoes at home should not eat them unless they are thoroughly cooked\u201d such as in pizza and quiche,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Restaurants and cafes should also follow this advice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Where do your semi-dried tomatoes come from?\u00a0 An outbreak of hepatitis A has been linked to contaminated semi-dried tomatoes in Victoria with about a dozen Victorians diagnosed with hepatitis A this week. Experts from the Department of Health fear a rerun of May&#8217;s spike in the disease in Victoria and South Australia that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chefs-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4949,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/4949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}