In January, the U.S. Department of Agriculture shocked health-seeking Americans by announcing it would require virtually all almonds to be “pasteurized” by September 1, 2007, after a couple of salmonella outbreaks in 2001 and 2004 were traced back to raw almonds.
As I’ve reported previously, not only are you losing yet another healthy whole food source, but that very fact is also being hidden from you through the approved use of false labeling, by allowing treated almonds to be labeled and sold as “raw.”