Data on the prevalence and populations of pathogens in individual foods are critical to the
development of product-specific quantitative microbial risk assessments. An outbreak of
salmonellosis associated with the consumption of raw almonds in 2000 to 2001 provided an
opportunity to evaluate the levels of Salmonella in the recalled product. Duplicate 100-g
samples from each of fifty 22.7-kg boxes of recalled almonds were enriched by one of two
methods. Salmonella was isolated by at least one method from 42 boxes (84% positive). The …