Mississippi Business Journal » melon http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Indiana farm linked to salmonella-tainted melons http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/29/indiana-farm-linked-to-salmonella-tainted-melons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=indiana-farm-linked-to-salmonella-tainted-melons http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/29/indiana-farm-linked-to-salmonella-tainted-melons/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:51:01 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=61982 OWENSVILLE, Ind. — A southwestern Indiana cantaloupe farm is the source of at least some of the salmonella responsible for an outbreak that sickened people in 21 states and killed two Kentucky residents, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday. Salmonella collected from Chamberlain Farms in Owensville, Ind., matches the “DNA fingerprint” of the salmonella [...]

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