Colorado cantaloupe farmers plead guilty on listeria outbreak

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Colorado cantaloupe farmers plead guilty on listeria outbreak

By Robert Boczkiewicz DENVER (Reuters) - Two Colorado farmers whose listeria-contaminated cantaloupes killed 33 people pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal criminal charges stemming from one of the deadliest outbreaks of food-borne illness in the United States. U.S. prosecutors last month charged brothers Eric and Ryan Jensen, former owners of Colorado-based Jensen Farms, with six counts each of introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce tied to shipping tainted melons to markets in 2011. ...

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