Simon & Luke Files Tainted Cantaloupe Lawsuit Texas-based food safety firm Simon & Luke has filed a lawsuit on behalf of one of the 146 victims nationwide that have been sickened by cantaloupe contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.  The cantaloupes were produced by Jensen Farms in Colorado and distributed by Texas-based Frontera Produce, Ltd. The lawsuit was filed [...]

Joe Barton (Rep.-TX) and Diana DeGette (Dem.-CO) Join Forces to Investigate Jensen Farms The devastating listeria outbreak linked to Rocky Ford cantaloupe has brought together an odd mixture of Congresspersons who issued a bipartisan letter Friday asking Jensen Farms to brief the committee on the Colorado listeria outbreak.   Among the members are two from [...]

New Mexico State Students Proposed a Listeria Solution Months before 5 Killed in New Mexico In the aftermath of the most deadly outbreak of listeria in over a quarter century, with 25 confirmed dead and 126 confirmed ill, producers are searching for a solution. Nowhere is this more true than in New Mexico, a state [...]

            Officers of the CDC and FDA Address Listeria Outbreak in Telephone Conference The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Thomas Frieden, as well as the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Margaret Hamburg, both provided significant commentary on September 28th, regarding [...]

Cantaloupe Consumers in California, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia Should be Vigilant Through its ongoing review into the nationwide Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to tainted cantaloupes, the FDA has now determined that California, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia may have received shipments of tainted cantaloupes from Jensen Farms indirectly.  According to the FDA: “Secondary and [...]

Cantaloupes Sent to Indiana, Wisconsin and Louisiana Added to Recall Jensen Farms of Holly, Colorado, sits at the center of a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to contaminated cantaloupe that has claimed at least 15 lives and sickened 84 people in 19 states.  Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Jensen Farms has expanded its [...]

Costco Calling for Safer Melon Production After Listeria Outbreak Kills 13 According to the New York Times, federal health officials have identified at least 19 previous outbreaks involving more than 1,000 illnesses and three deaths resulting from cantaloupe consumption since 1984.  Now, with at least 13 deaths linked to cantaloupes grown at Jensen Farms in [...]

Tainted Cantaloupes May Be Responsible for 16 Deaths Nationwide “The number of deaths linked to Colorado-grown cantaloupes keeps climbing, and it soon could become the second-deadliest U.S. outbreak of a food-borne illness,” The Denver Post reports. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Post says, “13 deaths have now been confirmed, and [...]

Nebraska Sees First Fatality Linked to Tainted Cantaloupe The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has reported the state’s first death from listeriosis linked to tainted Rocky Ford cantaloupe from Jensen Farms. Test results indicate that a man in his eighties from the western part of the state died earlier this month from listeriosis.  [...]

New Mexico Suffers 4 Deaths from Listeria Outbreak Linked to Cantaloupe Public health officials at the CDC, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and several state health departments are investigating a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes that has thus far sickened 55 persons in 14 states.   Of those, New Mexico has seen the highest number [...]