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OWENSVILLE, IN (AP) -
The Food and Drug Administration has
identified a southern Indiana farm that produces cantaloupes linked to a
deadly salmonella outbreak and says the operation has recalled its
melons.
The FDA says Chamberlain Farms of Owensville could be one source of the multistate outbreak.
A Chamberlain Farms
attorney says it voluntarily withdrew its cantaloupes last week and that
all its retail and wholesale purchasers complied. Owensville is 20
miles north of Evansville.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention reports that of 178 people infected in 21 states,
two have died and 62 have been hospitalized.
Chamberlain Farms earlier
agreed to withdraw its cantaloupe from distribution, but the FDA says
the formal recall will aid that effort and boost awareness.
Salmonellosis causes diarrhea, fever and cramps and can be fatal.
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