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 your choices for 2012, those stories that drew the most readership at Food Safety News.
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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 foodborne illness outbreak in a century last year, California growers led an intense nationwide campaign
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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 its cantaloupes or honeydews, according to a report published Thursday in produce industry magazine The
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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 contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. In the U.S. Food and Drug Administration update, issued very early
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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 and Drug Administration said Thursday the recall expansion — up from 580 cases over the
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