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Eagle Produce cantaloupe recalled at Meijer stores for Salmonella contamination

By News Desk on October 7, 2020

Grand Rapids, MI-based Meijer, in conjunction with Eagle Produce,LLC in Aguila, AZ., today announced the recall of whole cantaloupes and some cut cantaloupe fruit trays and bowls. The recall is part of a sampling investigation…
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FDA import alerts

Milk products, seafood, cantaloupes among questionable commodities

By News Desk on June 19, 2020

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.

Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as…
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FDA import alerts

FDA modifies import alerts for French cheese, fruit, spices, fish, honey and more

By News Desk on December 11, 2019

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.

Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as…
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FDA alert modifications include candy, cantaloupes, foreign fish, canned goods

By News Desk on December 2, 2019

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.

Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as…
Continue Reading FDA alert modifications include candy, cantaloupes, foreign fish, canned goods

Now growing hemp, not deadly cantaloupe, Jensen brothers face felony charges in Kansas

By Dan Flynn on July 30, 2019

Former cantaloupe growers, brothers Eric and Ryan Jensen, owed $26,368 in restitution imposed by the U.S. District Court in Denver when they decided to work off their debt by helping with a family hemp growing…
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Publisher’s Platform: A Father’s Day without a father

By Bill Marler on June 16, 2019

My friend and former client and I have stayed in touch since the Listeria cantaloupe outbreak took his father. On this Father’s Day I asked him to put some of his thoughts into words:

My…
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Publisher’s Platform: Revive the MDP

By Bill Marler on November 30, 2018

Hundreds sicken and hospitalized, dozens with kidney failure and 7 deaths from romaine in the last 12 months in the U.S. and Canada and the response from industry and government has been what?  Please put…
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Weather played role in deadly Australian Listeria melon outbreak

By Joe Whitworth on October 13, 2018

An investigation into a Listeria outbreak in Australia linked to seven deaths has found the weather played a significant role in contamination.

The outbreak from rockmelons, known as cantaloupe in North America, affected 22 people…
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New cases of salmonellosis reported in melon-related outbreak

By Coral Beach on June 20, 2018

Ten more people are sick in a Salmonella outbreak that has spread to two more states. Pre-cut melons are implicated, according to public health officials who renewed their public warnings yesterday about the fresh fruit…
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Iowa added to list of states that received melon linked to outbreak

By News Desk on June 13, 2018

As the FDA added another state to the list of those that received pre-cut melon implicated in a salmonellosis outbreak, the chair of the Congressional Food Safety Caucus implored federal agencies to find “what deficiencies…
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Publisher’s Platform: FDA continues its role as Chicken Little

By Bill Marler on June 12, 2018

After 25 years doing food litigation, I am seldom surprised by the announcement of a foodborne illness outbreak. It was no different last Friday when Indiana announced a multi-state Salmonella outbreak linked to cut fruit…
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