Can You Get Food Poisoning From Pistachios?

The FDA advises that you should avoid eating pistachio nuts beginning on March 30, 2009. They can carry food-poisoning salmonella bacteria.

Can you get Salmonella from pistachios?

To date, one patient in Connecticut who was infected with a Salmonella strain with a matching DNA fingerprint has reported eating a pistachio-containing product. Salmonella that invades foods, including nuts, can cause human disease and is a public health concern.

Do pistachios have bacteria?

These results showed that pistachios and pistachio products can be a potential source of infection with foodborne viruses and aflatoxins contamination.

These isolates included Klebsiella pneumonia and Salmonella sp., according to sequencing results. These results showed that pistachios and pistachio products can be a potential source of infection with foodborne viruses and aflatoxins contamination.

Since 2001, there have been 12 outbreaks involving nut and nut butter products in this region, sickening at least 1,275 people. The nuts can be polluted while they are still on the trees, by bird poop or contaminated irrigation water, or contaminated during harvest.

On nuts, however, various foodborne pathogens have been identified, including Salmonella, E. coli O157, and Listeria [44,45,46]. In addition, E. coli O157 was implicated in a multistate foodborne epidemic in 2011 that was traced back to contaminated in-shell hazelnuts [8].

Officials said the process of roasting pistachios normally kills salmonella bacteria, so they suspect that the recalled nuts may have been cross contaminated with unroasted nuts or some other salmonella source after roasting.

As soon as the hull splits, the pistachio nut is susceptible to disease. Small, pinhole-size openings in the nutmeat are the first signs of an infestation.

Pistachios may cause stomach pain if you have fructan intolerance, which is a dangerous reaction to a particular carbohydrate. If so, you could be having: Bloating. Nausea.