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Cantaloupes, seafood top list of enforcement modifications

By News Desk on March 31, 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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Listeria Killed 1 in 5 Infected in Recent Years

By James Andrews on June 5, 2013

Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium often associated with foodborne illness outbreaks in cheese and fresh produce, killed approximately one in five Americans it infected between 2009 and 2011, according to a new Vital Signs report released…
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Produce Industry Groups Release Cantaloupe Safety Guidance

By James Andrews on March 7, 2013

Produce industry groups announced on Wednesday the publication of national food safety guidelines for cantaloupes, a start-to-finish guide developed through industry collaboration to advise growers on the best current cantaloupe-growing practices to avoid contamination of…
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Fresh Fruit Product Recalled for Potential Salmonella Contamination

By News Desk on September 14, 2012

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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Cantaloupe Death Brings Another Wrongful Death Lawsuit

By News Desk on September 14, 2012

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in Louisiana’s 26th Judicial District Court in Bossier Parish on behalf of the estate of Francis Gilbert, who died after eating Colorado-grown cantaloupe last year that was contaminated…
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Farm Linked to Cantaloupe Outbreak Is Likely Source of One, Possibly Two More Outbreaks

By Gretchen Goetz on September 13, 2012

The Indiana farm whose cantaloupes were deemed the likely source of a nationwide Salmonella Typhumurium outbreak last month is now the suspected source of at least one other Salmonella outbreak linked to its cantaloupes and…
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California Cantaloupes Recalled Over Salmonella Test

By News Desk on September 13, 2012

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

By James Andrews on September 5, 2012

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 at the Crossroads

By The Packer on September 4, 2012

The unwritten rule in the produce industry is that a company should not market its product as safer than a competitor’s. The thinking is that once consumers get it in their heads that a fruit…
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Salmonella Strain Linked to Multistate Outbreak Found at Cantaloupe Farm

By News Desk on August 28, 2012

The strain of Salmonella that has now sickened 178 people in 21 states has been found on samples of cantaloupes from the southwestern Indiana farm previously suspected to be the source of the bacteria, confirming…
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CDC Adds 3 More Deaths to Toll of 2011 Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak

By Gretchen Goetz on August 28, 2012

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised the official death toll of last year’s cantaloupe-linked Listeria outbreak from 30 to 33. Since the CDC issued its final outbreak report on December 8…
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