FDA Issues Cantaloupe Warning.

Food Institute Report, The, June, 2001

The FDA advised consumers of an outbreak of foodborne illness associated with cantaloupe from two Mexican companies, S.P.R. De R.I. Legumbrera San Luis and S.P.R. De R.I. Los Arroyos, and imported by Shipley Sales Service of Nogales, AZ. This outbreak of Salmonella poona has involved numerous illnesses and two deaths in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Tennessee and Washington state.

Salmonella poona is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. The cantaloupe was sold in retail stores and restaurants and possibly served in health care facilities. Fresh cantaloupe...

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