date:Aug 29, 2012
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Chamberlain Farms was the likely site of contamination, but at the time test results had not confirmed the connection.
The agency collected samples at the Owensville, Indiana farm between August 14-16, and announcedTuesday thatsamples of cantaloupe taken from the farm have shown the presence of Salmonella Typhimurium with a DNA fingerprint that matches the outbreak strain.
Consumers who recently purchased Chamberlain Farms