Colorado cantaloupe farmers charged in listeria outbreak

Eric and Ryan Jensen face up to six years in prison and up to $1.5m (£936,856) in fines.

US officials clam they did not "adequately was melons" leading to the death of 33 people and sickened 147

"The Jensens' actions resulted in at least six shipments of contaminated cantaloupe being sent to 28 states, officials said."

my only thing is, yeah the farmers should defiantly clean there produce. but damnit so should the places buying them

The owners of a Colorado cantaloupe farm linked to a 2011 food poisoning outbreak which killed 33 people and sickened 147 have been arrested and charged with selling contaminated food.

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If It were women not washing their Melons, I'm sure it would have been a different story...

Mediocre Porn no doubt.

I bet these guys liability claims were through the roof, silly people.

what happened to consumer responsibility ?

washing raw produce is a basic task

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Yeah, and now it seems to have landed them in some hot water, I guess this will be an example to the rest

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We named our band Tainted Cantaloupes after this listeria outbreak in the hopes that there would be another - kind of crazy, right?

Although it took us a LONG time to compete against the "Tainted Cantaloupe Outbreak Kills x People" news articles on Google and YouTube.

My lead singer has interesting tastes and likes cultural references.

u know its getting bad with the things we can and cant eat we would all be better off growing our own food raising our own animals and building our own houses im tired of going grocirie shopping andthe next day i read about something we ate that night is either being recalled or has made some one sick were is the relief

since when is "washing" produce the responsibility of the farmer?