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To stay safe:
To reduce the risk of contracting salmonella or other food-borne illnesses from cantaloupes, the FDA recommends:
• Purchasing cantaloupes that are not bruised or damaged. If buying fresh-cut cantaloupe, refrigerate or surround it with ice.
• Washing hands with hot, soapy water before or after handling fresh cantaloupes.
• Scrubbing whole cantaloupes by using a clean produce brush and cool tap water immediately before eating.
• Cutting away and not eating bruised or damaged areas of the cantaloupe.
• Discarding leftover cut cantaloupe if left at room temperature for more than two hours.

Tucson Region

Arizona among 16 states reporting tainted melons

Staff and wire reports
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.23.2008
Arizona is one of 16 states in which cantaloupes tainted with salmonella have made people sick.
But no cases of the infection have been reported in the Tucson area, said Patti Woodcock, spokeswoman for the Pima County Health Department.
The Food and Drug Administration Saturday issued the alert for the melons from Agropecuaria Montelibano.
Grocers are advised to remove from their stock any cantaloupes from this company. People should check with stores to see whether recently purchased cantaloupes came from Honduras. People should throw away cantaloupes from the Honduran manufacturer believed to be linked to a salmonella outbreak.
So far, 50 people have become sickened in 16 states and nine in Canada.
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