Cantaloupe Recall Due To Listeria Expands To Pre-Cut Fruit Salads
NPRCantaloupe Recall Due To Listeria Expands To Pre-Cut Fruit Salads Enlarge this image toggle caption iStockphoto.com A fast-growing segment of the fruit market, pre-cut salad, is getting caught up in the cantaloupe listeria recall iStockphoto.com The FDA just announced another recall in connection to the listeria outbreak in cantaloupes that has been blamed for at least 18 deaths and 100 illnesses since August. This time the potential suspect is a growing segment of the grocery market — those pre-cut chunks of cantaloupe that get mixed in with various other fruits for ready made salads. Fruit Fresh Up, Inc. of Depew, New York is recalling approximately 4,800 individual packages of Fresh Cut Cantaloupe and Cut Mixed Fruit Containing Cantaloupe distributed in and around Buffalo because it's potentially contaminated with listeria, the release says. It includes: Cantaloupe Chunks, Cantaloupe Slices, Gourmet Fruit Salad, Small Fruit Salad, Small and Large Fruit Salad with Pineapple, Fruit Salad with Kiwi, and Fruit Trays, the release says.
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