FDA issues update on Burch Farms melons recall
Story Date: 8/15/2012

 
Source: Helena Bottemiller, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 8/14/12

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reminding consumers that the Burch Farms cantaloupe recall was greatly expanded over the weekend. As of last week, 189,000 cantaloupes had been recalled, but the company has now extended their recall to include this growing season as well as honeydew melons after investigators found Listeria monocytogenes in the farm's packing facility and on a honeydew melon grown and packed by the company.

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