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Cantaloupe, America’s Most Predictable Killer – Salmonella or Listeria?

By Bill Marler
May 21, 2026

I’ve been suing people over cantaloupe for years. I’m not happy about it. But here we are — again.

Let me walk you through what three decades of depositions, hospital visits, and funerals have taught me about this fruit.

The…

Food Poison Journal

Experience matters in Cantaloupe Salmonella Lawsuits

By Bill Marler
December 9, 2023

Marler Clark has been in the lead for all the Cantaloupe Outbreaks Lawsuits over the last decades. Here is a sampling:

  • Caito Foods Melon Salmonella Outbreak – Multistate (2018)
  • Chamberlain Farms Cantaloupe Salmonella Outbreak – Multistate (2012)
  • Del Monte

…

Marler Blog

Past Salmonella and Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreaks and Lawsuits

By Bill Marler
November 30, 2023

Marler Clark has been in the lead for all the Cantaloupe Outbreaks Lawsuits over the last decades. Here is a sampling:

  • Caito Foods Melon Salmonella Outbreak – Multistate (2018)
  • Chamberlain Farms Cantaloupe Salmonella Outbreak – Multistate (2012)
  • Del Monte Cantaloupe

…

Food Poison Journal

A History of Cantaloupe Lawsuits – Salmonella and Listeria

By Bill Marler
November 26, 2023

Marler Clark has been in the middle and in the lead for all the Cantaloupe Outbreaks over the last decades. Here is a sampling:

  • Caito Foods Melon Salmonella Outbreak – Multistate (2018)
  • Chamberlain Farms Cantaloupe Salmonella Outbreak – Multistate (2012)

…

Food Poison Journal

2012 Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Cantaloupe

By Bill Marler
January 30, 2015

CDC collaborated with public health officials in many states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium and Salmonella Newport infections linked to cantaloupe originating from Chamberlain Farms Produce, Inc. of Owensville,…

Food Safety News

Indiana, Kentucky Win Prestigious Public Health Award

By News Desk
December 17, 2013

The Indiana State Department of Health and the Kentucky Department of Public Health have been awarded the John J. Guzewich Environmental Public Health Team Award for their combined response to the multi-state Salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupes from Chamberlain Farms…

Food Safety News

FDA Issues Report on Chamberlain Cantaloupe Outbreak: Fields, Packinghouse Blamed

By News Desk
March 5, 2013

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week released an environmental assessment inspection report on how exactly the cantaloupes linked to a deadly 2012 Salmonella outbreak may have been contaminated. The report comes six months after Chamberlain Farms in Owensville,…

Marler Blog

Chamberlain Farms Cantaloupe Outbreak – Lessons not Learned

By Bill Marler
March 4, 2013
cantaloupe ball

In reading the FDA’s Environmental Assessment: Factors Potentially Contributing to the Contamination of Fresh Whole Cantaloupe Implicated in a Multi-State Outbreak of Salmonellosis regarding the Chamberlain Farm’s Salmonella outbreak from last year over the weekend, I was struck by how…

Salmonella Blog

FDA Warning Letter to Chamberlain Farms Linked to Salmonella Cantaloupe Outbreak

By Bill Marler
January 3, 2013

According to the CDC, epidemiological investigations, traceback investigations, and analytical results that linked cantaloupes grown and packed on Chamberlain Farms to a nationwide outbreak involving two strains of Salmonella enterica: Salmonella Typhimurium and Salmonella Newport. As of October 4, 2012…

Marler Blog

Cantaloupe Farm Implicated in 261 Ill, 3 Death Salmonella Outbreak Gets FDA Warning Letter

By Bill Marler
January 3, 2013
Chamberlin Farms Cantaloupe

A few weeks ago, Mr. Chamberlain of Chamberlain Farms Indiana received a not too friendly letter from Mr. Bass of the FDA.  In part the letter outlined again the results of the:
… epidemiological investigations, traceback investigations, and analytical results…

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