Cantaloupe

My hubby eats it all the time, I don't like it either. But we make sure we only get them from local sources, not from Colorado. Hugs!

The same thing is happening with lettuce here..There is a hugh recall on bagged and head lettuce. I was eating alot of cantaloupe when the scare came out. My state was one where these tainted melons were sold..Cantaloupe and bananas are fruits that I can eat without problems. I got sick about the time the recall came out which made me wonder???? Supposedly there was a lengthy incubation period with the melons..

Cindy

I think so. The bad ones were from one farms packing plant in colorado

I was not aware of the lettuce warning but I cant eat it anyway so guess i am safe . I will warn my wife though . I'm pretty sure the melon scare is for just the ones from Colorado but they should be off the shelves by now . Onedaymore , just be sure they are not cracked or damaged in any way and i would not eat them all ready pealed in a restaurant for a while . Guess that checking what we eat is more important for us with low immune response but all people need to watch out for where things come from and what shape they are in . I am asked in some restaurants , how I want my burger cooked. Ground meat should always be cooked , never rare . That's OK for a steak , but never never for meat that is ground up . It always surprises me when I hear someone order a rare hamburger . Scary .

I don't eat melon or lettuce so I'm good there, but

As Monty Python would say: And now for something completely different: In the Boston Globe for the last 2 days they have been doing a huge expose on how a large percentage of fish is mislabeled in stores and restaurants. Not just frozen being labeled fresh, but entire types of fish mislabeled. Some of the ones that are being substituted are nutritionally inferior or cause gastrointestinal distress! Oh joy, I eat nothing but fish and rice right now. I have pounds of fish from some of the markets in my freezer. I guess I will be tossing that and eating just rice for the foreseeable future. Even Legal Seafoods had mislabeled fish. If you can't trust them to know what they are serving, you can't trust any fish dealer.

Roni , most beef is contaminated by poor handling in the slaughter house . Fecal matter is the #1 cause . Beef may be dropped on the dirty floor and then just hosed off after . Cooking temp kills most contaminants and they will be on the outside of a steak . Ground beef is different as the bacteria are ground up in the meat thus needing to be cooked all the way through to kill them .
Zane , do you have a fish market anywhere near you ? If so , just learn what your favorite fish looks like and buy them by sight . I went to a food store in Houston where you picked out what you wanted,,,they were swimming in tanks ,,, and they cleaned it for you right then . Another way is to buy products that or processed on the ship they are caught on , such as Alaskan cod . Shell fish would be pretty hard to mislabel too. Shrimp, crab , crawfish , lobster , are all pretty much hard to misidentify .Then there is the old fishing pole and catch your own .

you want food thats been adulterated? look up "meat glue" and watch what it is and how it works! OMG.. mostly used in other countires , not the US but the big stories were from AUS. and of course china.