The notification that I received a while back said that all raw almonds were going to have to be pasteurized - including the unshelled ones, which are of course raw.
Re Salmonella in birds, it is normal flora in chickens but do note that in chickens the bacteria appears in eggs or as a contaminate if the meat is not properly handled during slaughtering. It isn't something that is normally part & parcel of chicken poop. If it were everyone in the country who raised chickens would have salmonella - and that is not the case at all.
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