date:Nov 01, 2012
growers around the nation were paying attention to see what improvements needed to be made to keep the fruit free of pathogens. However, it soon came to light that some still had food safety issues.
Two incidences marred the 2012 growing season.
North Carolinas Burch Farms, which supplied Hannaford Supermarkets, discovered on July 28 that cantaloupe it shipped July 15 were contaminated with Listeria.
The original recall included 580 crates of whole Athena cantaloupes, but it was expanded to i