date:Mar 07, 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 microbial pathogens.
Cantaloupes have made headlines in recent years for being the source of two major foodborne illness outbreaks: the 2011 Jensen Farms Listeria outbreak, and the 2012 Chamberlain Farms Salmonella outbreak. T