The Outbreak Database has come in handy to track just how often cantaloupes – and other foods – have caused problems. Here is a sample platter of outbreaks linked to cantaloupe with links to citations:
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Publisher’s Platform: Ode to the Microbiological Data Program
I was going to take a weekend off from Publisher’s Platform. It has been a long couple of weeks of long days, and more than a few late nights, working on putting the cases together
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Publisher’s Platform: MMWR – Food for Thought
Several years ago I started following the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). It used to come weekly in the mail (perhaps it still does), but it is a bit easier to
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Publisher’s Platform: Should Brothers Ryan and Eric Jensen Face Criminal Charges
Will producers of Listeria-tainted cantaloupe be fined or jailed? Earlier this week Food Safety News reported that the CDC had increased the numbers of those considered to be culture-confirmed cases from the 2011 cantaloupe Listeria
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Publisher's Platform: Who is a Food Safety Hero?
We started Food Safety News nearly three years to the day the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that a nationwide E. coli O157:H7 outbreak had been traced to spinach. I had filed suit against
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Publisher's Platform: What is a Food Crime?
Do you remember Domino’s Pizza employees Kristy Hammonds and Michael Setzer, who made a video of Setzer, 32, putting cheese up his nose before putting it on a sandwich, passing gas on a piece of
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Publisher’s Platform: A Meal from Hell
It is time to pass S. 510 BEFORE this is on the Senate Dining Room Menu:
Next week I will be co-chairing the ACI Foodborne Illness Litigation Conference in Chicago and co-hosting an evening meal
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The House and Senate Agriculture and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Oversight Committees should hold joint hearings on the Salmonella egg fiasco.
As I said to the Associate Press yesterday, “The history of ignoring the
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I received this email this weekend in response to an interview I gave recently about raw milk to “Food Manufacturing” online:
Farm fresh? All the rage? natural food craze? certified organic is a
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Has the nail been driven into the coffin of the conventional wisdom that grass-fed beef is safer than grain-fed beef?
In 2008 I posted “Grass-Fed vs Grain-Fed Beef and the Holy Grail: A Literature