In article <56qr8v$g46 at freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
ba600 at FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Mike Kenzie) writes:
>In another Newsgroup it has been claimed that Salmonella does not
occur
>naturally in vegetarian foods, that reported cases have been the
result
of
>contamination by meat products.
There are papers in the literature which speak to finding enteric
microbes in salads. These are 20-25 years old, but did mention that a
variety of these types of microbes were found even in fresh salads
from hospital food lines! Since salmonella are enterics you should
consider a vegan lifestyle the same threat as non-vegan diets..