New International Food Safety Network Infosheet — Cantaloupes linked to Salmonella outbreak - (International Food Safety Network)
March 27, 2008 – 9:15 pmhttp://www.foodsafety.ksu.edu/articles/1174/iFSN-infosheet-3-27-08.pdf
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/03/articles/salmonella/how-to-prepare-a-cantaloupe-is-salmonella-a-risk/index.html
The newest food safety infosheet, a graphical one-page food safety-related story directed at food handlers, is now available at foodsafetyinfosheets.ksu.edu.
Infosheet highlights:
50 illnesses in Canada and the United States associated with Honduran cantaloupe grower.
Make sure you refrigerate cantaloupes as soon as they have been sliced up.
Bacteria such as Salmonella, can grow nicely on the orange meat of the fruit at room temperature.
If you wash the outside of the cantaloupe, vigorously use a scrub brush under running water to remove any easy-to-get to bacteria (and try not to splash the water all around the kitchen).
Infosheets are created weekly by iFSN and are posted in restaurants, retail stores, on farms and used in training throughout the world. If you have any infosheet topic requests, or photos, please contact Ben Chapman at bchapman@uoguelph.ca
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