Editor’s Note: With only a few days of 2012 remaining, it’s time to take a look back at the year. That’s what we will be doing today and tomorrow. We are going to begin with
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Is Pasteurization the Answer to Killer Cantaloupes?
Killer cantaloupes could kill the cantaloupe business, and thus something must be done to ensure the safety of these fruits. After Colorado cantaloupes were found to be at the center of the nation’s most deadly
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Burch Farms Lacks Audits, Traceability on Recalled Melons
Burch Farms, the grower currently undertaking a complete recall of its cantaloupes and honeydews due to Listeria contamination, lacks third-party audits for its cantaloupe operation, and is also lacking any sort of traceability program for
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Cantaloupe Recall Expanded to Include Whole Growing Season, Honeydew
Burch Equipment LLC in North Carolina is expanding its recent recall of nearly 189,000 cantaloupes to now include all of this growing season’s cantaloupes and honeydew melons distributed in 18 states because they may be
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Listeria Cantaloupe Recall Expanded to 188,000 Melons
Burch Equipment LLC in North Carolina is expanding their recall to include 13,888 cases and 581 bins of whole Athena cantaloupes, 188,902 melons in all, for possibly being contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The U.S. Food
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