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Going public: FDA inspection of cantaloupe farm reveals failures

October 3, 2012 by foodsafeguru

by Doug Powell On Aug. 17, 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control announced an outbreak of Salmonella linked to cantaloupe. On Aug. 22, 2012, announced Chamberlain Farms in Owensville, Indiana was voluntarily recalling its cantaloupes. But beginning Aug. 14, 2012, FDA types visited the farm as the epidemiological investigation increasingly fingered Chamberlain cantaloupes in […]

2 deaths, 204 sickened, 79 hospitalized from Salmonella in Cantaloupe

September 3, 2012 by foodsafeguru

A total of 204 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 22 states from cantaloupe, according to the CDC. The 26 new cases are from 12 states: Arkansas (2), Florida (1), Georgia (1), Illinois (3), Indiana (4), Iowa (1), Kentucky (7), Minnesota (1), Missouri (1), North Carolina (2), Ohio (1), […]

Focus on the sick people and farm conditions rather than the blame: lotsa time for that later; Indiana says official didn’t blame consumers for cantaloupe outbreak

August 29, 2012 by foodsafeguru

by Doug Powell With at least two people dead and 178 sick from Salmonella linked to cantaloupe in 21 states, Jim Howell of the Indiana Department of Health told growers improper food handling procedures may be to blame for a good portion of the illnesses. But now the Indiana State Department of Health has insisted […]

Food Safe Guru – Beware of Cantaloupes (they could kill you)

August 18, 2012 by foodsafeguru

In 2009, when I founded US Food Safety, the “hot” story was melamine. Then the food safety world exploded with the massive recall by a peanut processor in Georgia called Peanut Corporation of America that tainted the U.S. landscaped with his contaminated ingredients to include over 3,000 products. Right on the heels of this was […]

Cantaloupe again? Jeeez

August 17, 2012 by foodsafeguru

Kentucky , Indiana, Tennessee and Illinois are going to be reporting a multi-state Salmonella outbreak – Texas and Nebraska have also seen an up tic in Salmonella cases – not clear they are linked: http://www.salmonellablog.com/salmonella-outbreaks/are-texas-and-nebraska-salmonella-cases-linked-to-cantaloupe/index.html Of course there has been the recent Listeria melon recall - Burch Farms: Unsanitary Conditions, Positive Listeria Test, No […]