date:Mar 20, 2017
,100 hospitalizations and 134 deaths every year, and generate $1.4 billion in illness-related costs.
Dike Ukuku and his colleagues at the ARS Food Safety and Intervention Technologies Unit inoculated cantaloupe with E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria, then dried them and refrigerated them for 7 days. A commercially available power steamer was used to steam-clean the cantaloupes for 3 minutes. The temperature of the steamer was hot enough to kill pathogens, at 154, but was not hot enough to damag