date:Aug 01, 2012
The warning comes almost a year after Listeria-contaminated cantaloupe from Colorado caused the deadliest domestic foodborne illness outbreak in a century and two weeks after the U.S. Department of Agriculturedecided to temporarily spare the Microbiological Data Program from budget cuts. The contamination was discovered by routine MDP sampling in New York.
As Food Safety News reported earlier this month, MDP does around 80 percent of public produce sampling for pathogens like E. coli O157:H7,