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Publisher’s Platform: Three Years Since People Died From Cantaloupe

By Bill Marler on July 22, 2014

It has been almost three long years since dusty Holly, Colorado, became the epicenter of a Listeria monocytogenes human tragedy. Many are painfully aware that litigation has been ongoing since the fall of 2011. The…
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Kroger Claims Primus Has Primary Liability for Deadly Listeria Outbreak

By News Desk on June 9, 2014

It was called an unusual move last year when the Colorado cantaloupe growers who relied upon the Primus Group sued their third-party food-safety auditor, claiming that the inspector the company sent them provided misleading advice…
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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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Today: Walmart, Kroger, Primus. Tomorrow: You?

By Dr. David Acheson on June 10, 2012

Last week, Jensen Farms, the grower of the cantaloupe implicated in the Listeria outbreak of 2011, filed for bankruptcy. Prominently listed in the filing were lawsuits associated with the outbreak, from which 146 people were…
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Serious Questions About Third-Party Audits

By Dr. David Acheson on January 25, 2012

On Jan. 10, 2012, a Congressional House report was issued on the government’s investigation into the cantaloupe Listeria outbreak. The report provided some very interesting findings and lessons not only for and about Jensen…

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Congressional Probe Finds Many to Blame for Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak

By Dan Flynn on January 11, 2012

The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce might have substituted a photo for its brief investigation report, released Tuesday, on the outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infection from contaminated cantaloupes at Colorado’s Jensen Farms.

That…

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Top Food Safety Stories of 2011: No. 2

By Dan Flynn on December 28, 2011

America’s most deadly incidence of foodborne illness in a century was 2011’s second-most important food safety story — the outbreak of listeriosis linked to whole cantaloupes from Jensen Farms, CO, that spread over 28 states, infecting…

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Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak Ends As Most Deadly in 100 Years

By Dan Flynn on December 9, 2011

A 28-state Listeria outbreak is over, with the sad distinction of being the most deadly outbreak of foodborne illness in the United States in 100 years.

In the end, one out of every five of…

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A Sixth Lawsuit Filed in Cantaloupe Outbreak

By News Desk on October 8, 2011

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 national outbreak of Listeria infection.…

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Fourth Lawsuit Filed Against Jensen Farms

By News Desk on September 28, 2011

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 Canadian County District Court on…

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