It is no accident that cantaloupes from California have never been associated with an outbreak of foodborne illness.
But for the third time in 20 years, California cantaloupe growers are
The farm at the center of the nation’s deadly Listeria outbreak did not follow established food safety practices in handling its fresh cantaloupes, federal officials said Wednesday.
In releasing
One of the nation’s largest fresh fruit and vegetable organizations, the Produce Marketing Association, just wrapped up its annual “Fresh Summit” in Atlanta with a warning from its chief
In its 11th update on the multistate outbreak of listeriosis linked to contaminated cantaloupes from Jensen Farms in Colorado, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta
A combination of safety lapses inside the packing plant at Jensen Farms in Colorado likely led to the contamination of cantaloupes blamed for the nationwide outbreak of at least 123
It has been more than one month since Jensen Farms recalled its cantaloupes from the marketplace. By now, any melon that was not eaten, discarded or returned to the store
A month ago, Listeria was not a household word in the United States. Now that the pathogen has turned up in cantaloupes, a few more people know about this rare
Big stories generate more news downstream that we have to start thinking about. The most deadly outbreak in 25 years is definitely going to have ripples of its own.
Those
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wednesday said the outbreak linked to Listeria-tainted cantaloupe has killed 23 of the 116 people sickened, and that four of the illnesses
It was one month ago today that Colorado named its own “Rocky Ford-brand” cantaloupes as the likely source of a multistate outbreak of Listeria infection, which now could easily become
Two deaths in Louisiana have been confirmed by that state to be part of the multistate outbreak of Listeria infection linked to cantaloupe grown on a Colorado farm.
Louisiana health
With 109 sickened and 21 deaths, the Jensen Farms Frontera Listeria Outbreakis now tied as the second-most deadly foodborne illness outbreak in the United States. The numbers of ill and