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Posted on 09/14/2011 7:03:45 PM PDT by bd476
Edited on 09/14/2011 7:19:16 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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"...'Colorado has stated...that people at a high risk for infection should not eat whole cantaloupe from the Rocky Ford growing region." The recall covers cantaloupes sold between July 29 and Sept. 10..."
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"...Eleven illnesses in Colorado, one in Indiana, one in Nebraska, one in Oklahoma and two in Texas are linked to the listeriosis outbreak and contaminated cantaloupes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 11 illnesses in Colorado include one death, said CDC spokeswoman Lola Russell..."
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"...Jensen Farms said it shipped the recalled cantaloupes to Illinois, Wyoming, Tennessee, Utah, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas, New Mexico, North Carolina, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
Listeriosis usually causes fever, muscle aches and diarrhea or other gastrointestinal problems, according to the CDC..."
But how do you know? Is it best to wash everything in a mild bleach solution? How long does listeria survive?
Thanks. I don't know if I have ever noticed where my cantaloupe are grown except in the USA. I'll look for South Dakota melons in the store.
I'm still going to remain cautious when handling, cutting and serving any kind of melon. Every year it seems there is a recall or FDA warning about melons causing an outbreak of illness.
Isn’t that always the case. I spurge and buy a cantaloupe and now I have to throw it out.
Heh, yes, I'm looking at a Honey Dew Melon wondering whether to chance it or toss it out.
Send it to me! Heck, for 99% of people, a bad case of listeria amounts to a bit of the runs.
Eat pieces of it on an empty stomach and your stomach acids should kill it good!
Another problem with many food illnesses is that people often get them IN COMBINATION with a bad cold or flu, making it seem much worse than it is, because your immune system is already compromised.
If you ever been to Mexico, a cantaloupe ain’t gonna kill ya!
I'll waste some more pixels. Just couldn't resist.. She can bake a cherry pie quick as a cat can blink her eyes, she's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
The honeydew should be fine. It has a smooth skin which can be cleaned easily.
Good, thanks! :)
Men can’t understand how to cut open their own cantaloupe? Yikes! We are in trouble as a country.
You mean that really bad day I had in Guadalajara Mexico 27 years ago immunized me from THAT again!???
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HOpefully not necessary . . .
It seems like the vector for Listeriosis
is In veterinary medicine, listeriosis can
be a quite common condition in some
farm outbreaks.
It can also be found in wild animals;
see listeriosis in animals.Listeriosis is an infectious but not contagious
disease caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes,
far more common in domestics animals
(domestic mammals and poultry), especially ruminants,
than in human beings. It can also occur in feral animals
—among others, game animals
—as well as in poultry and other birds.The causative bacterium lives in the soil
and in poorly made silage and is acquired by ingestion.
In sheep, the disease is also called the "circling disease"Listeriosis is relatively rare and occurs primarily in newborn infants,
elderly patients, and patients who are immunocompromised.
What is odd is we usually eat a lot of cantelopes in the summer- I usually grow a few and buy some too. This year I didn’t grow any vegetables and every time I looked at cantelopes in the store they looked sorry so didn’t buy any either. Good thing!
Before I get corrected I know cantelope is not a vegetable- I didn’t grow a garden at all this year just to be clear to the posting police. I only grew flowers, and not the ones on cantelope vines.
I”m assuming that when you slice it your knife goes thru the rind and contaminates the fruit. I never wash the rind, it never occurred to me to do it.
I have never in my life washed the outside of a cantaloupe and I have never in my life caught anything from them. Obviously this is now added to my list of things to do, but I consider myself fairly well up on kitchen hygiene and this is not something I have heard of before.
Thank you for that info.
i’m wondering if they washed the melon with soap and water before cutting it???
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