April 1, 2008
OTTAWA – People should throw out cantaloupes from Honduras because of the fruits’ association with a salmonella outbreak in Canada and the U.S., the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) warned Saturday.
People should not eat cantaloupes from Agropecuaria Montelibano, a grower and packer in Honduras, which were sold at Federated Co-Op stores in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, northwestern Ontario, Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon.
They were also sold at Safeway stores in B.C., only.
Nine people in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick became ill between Jan. 19 and Feb. 22 after eating the fruit.
No one has died from the outbreak, said Garfield Balsom, a food safety and recall specialist with the CFIA.
“But I don’t know how severe their symptoms were,” Balsom told Canwest News Service on Saturday night, adding they likely got sick from merely handling the contaminated skin of the fruit – which many not have looked or smelled spoiled…more..
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