date:Dec 28, 2018
The FDA has released a report on avocado and hot pepper sampling, as part of their new, proactive sampling program, that was adopted in 2014. The program attempts to help public health investigators identify patterns in certain foods that may help reduce microbial contamination. They found Listeria monocytogenes on 17.73% of the avocado skin samples. They found the overall prevalence of Salmonella on the samples to be about 0.74%.
That means that, if you dont rinse the avocado before you cut in