Victims of the ongoing Listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupe are calling on lawmakers to launch an investigation into the epidemic, which has now killed at least 21 people and sickened
An Oklahoma man who was hospitalized for a month after eating cantaloupe has filed a lawsuit against the grower and the distributor whose melons are at the center of the
With the Listeria outbreak tied to cantaloupes becoming more widespread, the toll as of 9 a.m. Oct. 6 had climbed to 109 cases and 21 deaths over 24 states,
The multistate outbreak of listeriosis linked to cantaloupes now includes another death — this one in Wyoming — and a miscarriage in Iowa, along with another melon recall by a western New
The outbreak of listeriosis linked to whole Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupes from Colorado’s Jensen Farms is now more than six times larger than it was when the first public warnings
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations produced the Food Safety Modernization Act after a series of public hearings on tragic foodborne illness outbreaks involving everything from peanut butter to eggs.
Since “organicfarmer” posted this comment on Food Safety News last week, I have not been able to shake it from my head:
“It’s really sad that farms and farmers
The outbreak of listeriosis that has spread from a cantaloupe farm in Colorado to 19 states has sickened at least 84 people and killed 15, the Centers for Disease Control
Could it have been the irrigation water? Or a heavy rain storm? How could cantaloupes become contaminated with Listeria to cause the outbreak that, as of Thursday, had sickened at
The nation’s top disease trackers and food regulators say it’s too early for them to know the “root cause” of the deadly cantaloupe Listeria outbreak, which they expect
Del Monte Fresh Produce announced Tuesday that it had reached “an amicable resolution” with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and an end to an import alert that prevented
A fourth lawsuit has been filed against Colorado-based Jensen Farms, whose Rocky Ford cantaloupe has been identified as the source of a multistate Listeria outbreak.
The lawsuit was filed in