{"id":657,"date":"2011-09-28T21:38:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T04:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handkerpouch.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2024-06-07T18:50:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T01:50:51","slug":"sugar-alert-cantaloupe-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handkerpouch.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Alert \u2013 Cantaloupe Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Dean L. Jones, C.P.M.<\/p>\n

Right at the height of people turning toward consuming more fruits and vegetables, another food-borne bacteria outbreak comes along.\u00a0\u00a0 Recently grown cantaloupes from Colorado are blamed to have caused possibly 16 people to die from \u2018listeria\u2019 bacteria.\u00a0 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that it is the largest outbreak of this disease in over a decade.
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This is a deadly bacterium more commonly associated and found in cheese or processed meats.\u00a0 Even if you do not feel ill after eating cantaloupes recently, you should still check the cantaloupe source as it can take four weeks or more for a person to fall ill after eating food contaminated with listeria.\u00a0 People who ate a tainted cantaloupe two weeks ago or even a week ago could still be falling sick weeks later.\u00a0\u00a0 Symptoms of listeria include fever and muscle aches, often with other gastrointestinal symptoms.\u00a0 Victims often become incapacitated and unable to speak.\u00a0 Listeria victims are measured to have a 25% fatality rate for those with a severe form of infection, unlike how the salmonella bacteria compares at a 1% mortality rate.<\/p>\n

My sincere condolences go out to the family members of those dying from this listeria bacterium.\u00a0 Particularly since anyone eating cantaloupe do so believing they are positively promoting a healthy diet.\u00a0 Thus far, Kansas, New Mexico, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming and as far away as Maryland are the states reporting deaths related to this infected cantaloupe crop from Colorado.\u00a0 Twenty-one people died in an outbreak of listeria poisoning in 1998 traced to contaminated hot dogs and possibly deli meats made by Bil Mar Foods, a subsidiary of Sara Lee Corporation.\u00a0 The one outbreak that is most prevalent in my memory is the large listeria food-borne contamination in 1985 that killed 52 people and was linked to Mexican-style soft cheese.<\/p>\n

The alert for this outbreak targets Jensen Farms, labeled as Rocky Ford brand cantaloupes and were shipped from July 29, 2011 through September 10, 2011 to Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.\u00a0 Portions of this large crop yield were also labeled \u2018Colorado Grown\u2019 and \u2019Sweet Rocky Fords\u2019 distributed by Frontera Produce.<\/p>\n

As a rule, you can rest assured that there are great benefits and health value linked with eating cantaloupes.\u00a0 Cantaloupes are low in calories and a rich source of Vitamin A, C and beta-carotene.\u00a0 A bit of trivia information when choosing cantaloupes is to select the ones that are fully ripened. This is according to science, as fruits fully ripen, almost to the point of spoilage, is when their antioxidant levels actually increase–even though they look as thou they have seen much better days.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Jones is a marketing strategist with the Southland Partnership Corporation (a public benefit organization), sharing his view on mismanagement practices of packaged foods & beverages.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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