Listeria hysteria avoided with cantaloupe safety guide: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario


Step 3 (below left): Cut melon should be stored in a closable, air-tight container that is stored on a bed of ice.
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Step 4 (above right): Immediately wash the cutting board and knife with a brush in 200 ppm of bleach.

Below, proper sterilization of your home...

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Robert Chase
Robert Chase

Several states have passed laws against the slander of their produce (I believe there was an effort in Colorado to pass such a law, but I don't think it succeeded).

This affair is not all that amusing -- more than a dozen nursing home residents less than happy, two of them dead, and there must be gloom in the town that thinks of its name as a brand of cantaloupe -- what does Rocky Ford have besides its cantaloupes?  .

Light Rail Tattler
Light Rail Tattler

John Hickenlooper and Pete Coors know how to turn infected melons into Beer.Vote Beer Party For President.Hickenlooper/Coors 2016

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