WASHINGTON) - recently from large-scale outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes in cantaloupe serious diseases and food contamination has become increasingly popular over the years, partly because of what we eat, need a long and winding road from farm to table.
A cantaloupe growing areas in Colorado could make four or five stations, before reaching the table. There are packaging and packaging house is clean, then the contract distributors and retailers, selling a lot of melon. A processor may be reduced or bags of fruit. Retail distribution center of the melon is sent to the various stores. Finally, it's stacked on display at the grocery store.
Imported fruits and vegetables, which make up almost two-thirds of production consumed in the United States, have a longer journey.
Currie, infectious disease specialist Dr. Brian said: "More and more agribusiness, you have any given the limited food producers, so the facility or plant, or in a large field crops burst operation Because exposure to thousands of food distribution, Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
Colorado melon crop diseases and the link 84 deaths in 19 states, 17 all the way up to producer Jason and extensive farms do not even know the exact end of their fruit.
The company said last week that it does not provide retailers selling contaminated fruit, because fruits and sale and resale. It named 28 fruit shipped, but in other countries report sick.
Kansas-based processor, to purchase Johnson, Carol layoffs, cantaloupe does not provide a notice to customers until 9 days after the original recall of cantaloupe farms have been sold.
"Food chain is very complex, said:" Shirley McGarry, the Food and Drug Administration Office of the Senior Advisor to the food. "There are many steps, steps can be even more difficult to link up each step to determine a common source" of the outbreak is.
Growing farms and companies dominate food production in the country. This has prompted some consumers to find farmers markets and local produce. Emphasis on food grown around the supermarket now, and farmers markets surge in popularity.
However, in the production industry, many of whom come together to try and improve the ability to fast-track food from farm to fork.
This is good business. Large memories, such as spinach, in 2006, in 2009 and 2010 eggs, peanuts, tend to depress sales of the product industry, even if only one company or the grower is responsible for the outbreak.
Recent salmonella outbreak in peanut and egg, which is in the tens of thousands of food ingredients, has been more extensive and sick people than there is pollution of the cantaloupe.
"There is a laser focus on improving the track, so you can identify any recall of the affected products immediately and the rest did not affect the overall category, said:" Lei Meiguo fresh produce association representing the nation's largest growers Gilmer.
Gilmer said that larger food companies have no choice but to take food safety very seriously.
"A large company to have a food safety incident is a huge bet," he said. "This may undermine their companies."
Listeria monocytogenes, the bacteria found in soil and water, often take turns in the processing of meat, because it can contaminate the treatment facilities, and stayed there for a long time. It is also common, unpasteurized cheese and unpasteurized milk, though a small production, such as cantaloupe.
The disease can cause fever, muscle pain, gastrointestinal symptoms, even death. Listeria monocytogenes in five people could die.
Last year, Congress passed a food safety law gives the FDA new power to improve system tracking food. Food safety advocates said the law will help make the food network every step of the security chain, more secure, making it easier to find the source of the outbreak of focus.
This is the first time, large-scale farms are required to submit plans detailing how they keep their production safety.


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