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Event 62963

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
August 16, 2012
Product types
Food
Classifications
Class I
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Chamberlain Farms Inc.

Dossier provenance

Source snapshots represented here

  • openFDA Food Enforcement Report-date coverage June 20, 2012–July 08, 2026 Known gap: openFDA describes 2004-present coverage, but the current export has no report-date records in this interval.

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Whole Cantaloupe. Both unlabeled and labeled "MIDWEST BEST" PRODUCE INC. HOMEGROWN CANTALOUPE #4319 PRODUCT OF THE USA

F-2357-2012
Recall number
F-2357-2012
Initiated
August 16, 2012
Classification
Class I
Status
Terminated
Recalling firm
Chamberlain Farms Inc.
Quantity
222,172

App-derived interpretation

Microbial contamination reason.microbial_contamination · v1.0.0
contaminated with Salmonella

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Reason for recall

Chamberlain Farm Produce, Inc., of Owensville, Indiana, is voluntarily recalling all of its cantaloupes from the 2012 growing season that may remain in the marketplace. This recall is occurring because of concern some that cantaloupes may be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with

Code information

none or #4319

Distribution pattern

Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa with further shipment including Tennessee, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Counties involved include Vanderburgh, Warrick, Gibson, and Dubois County, Indiana, and Wabash County,Illinois.