A Minnesota-based company is recalling its fresh cut fruit products because they contain cantaloupes that may be contaminated with Salmonella. Cut Fruit Express, Inc. of Inver Grove Heights, MN issued a voluntary recall of products
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California Cantaloupes Recalled Over Salmonella Test
As many as one-half million California-grown cantaloupes were recalled Thursday “out of an abundance of caution” by Fresno-based DFI Marketing Inc. Most have already been consumed without any illnesses being associated with them. But a
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Few Walmart Stores Sold Chamberlain Cantaloupes
A small number of Walmart stores in undisclosed states carried cantaloupes from Chamberlain Farms, the farm suspected to be the source of a Salmonella outbreak that killed 2 people and sickened at least 204 in
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Cantaloupe Outbreak: Some Retailers Identified, Others Not
This article was updated on Sept. 4, 2012 to include additional information provided by a Wal Mart spokeswoman. One week following the announcement of the Salmonella outbreak tied to cantaloupes grown by Chamberlain Farms in
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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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Recalled Cantaloupes Were Sent to 463 Food Lion Stores
Food Lion received recalled Burch Farms “Caribbean Gold” cantaloupes at 463 locations in seven states, the supermarket chain announced Tuesday. The cantaloupes were first recalled on July 28 due to a random sample testing positive
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Burch Farms Cantaloupe Recall Affects ‘Caribbean Gold,’ Not ‘Athena’
Burch Farms has corrected the variety of cantaloupe subject to its recent recall due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination: Instead of the ‘Athena’ variety identified in the original recall and its subsequent update, the variety
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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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DeLauro: Cantaloupe Recall Highlights Importance of MDP
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) said this week that the recent recall of cantaloupes for Listeria, which was initiated after the Microbiological Data Program found the bacteria in a sample, shows that the small produce testing
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