In addition to the public statements, incidents such as this “import alert” regarding entry of cantaloupe from Agropecuaria Montelibano, a Honduran grower and packer, become
Although most of the melons subject to the “import alert” regarding cantaloupes produced by Agropecuaria Montelibano are on the east coast and in the Midwest,
Plenty of consumer media outlets wound up with egg on their faces when, as we mentioned in FDA Fumbles Again On Cantaloupe ‘Alert’, they started
When the FDA was unable to answer many questions regarding the science that surrounds this “import alert” and the general issue of salmonella and cantaloupes,
One of the questions the FDA never answers is why it is so slow at getting information out. For example, T.M. Kovacevich in Philadelphia issued
When the history of this cantaloupe/salmonella/FDA alert situation is written, one of the true heroes will turn out to be the president of Honduras, Manuel
With all this talk about cantaloupes and salmonella, we’ve been asked to provide some of our retail readers with information they can pass on to
Produce is very much a relationship business, and one effect when FDA issues an “import alert” such as it did on cantaloupe produced by Agropecuaria
Agropecuaria Montelibano, the company that has gotten caught up in the “import alert” related to cantaloupe from Honduras, has been a model of transparency throughout
We wanted to better understand what the FDA was doing with this “import alert” that implicated cantaoupe produced by Agropecuaria Montelibano. To do this, we
