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Lawsuit targets Colo. cantaloupe grower
Updated: Tuesday, 29 Nov 2011, 9:13 AM MST
Published : Tuesday, 29 Nov 2011, 9:10 AM MST
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A lawsuit filed on behalf of a Hobbs woman who died in September after eating contaminated fruit says food safety auditors gave a Colorado cantaloupe farm a "superior" rating for safety and quality just weeks before health officials identified it as the source of a deadly bacterial outbreak.
The Albuquerque Journal (http://bit.ly/s3nR9e ) reports a Seattle law firm filed the lawsuit on behalf of 96-year-old Florence Wilcox. She's one of five New Mexicans who died this fall after eating listeria-contaminated cantaloupe. The outbreak sickened 15 others in New Mexico.
Colorado grower Jensen Farms and two food-safety firms hired to audit the cantaloupe grower in July were named in the suit.
Seattle attorney Bill Marler says the lawsuit is the first filed in New Mexico on behalf of a victim of the listeria outbreak.
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