"LeonLeonard" > wrote in message
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> On 7/15/2012 2:13 PM, merryb wrote:
>> On Jul 15, 10:50 am, Andy > wrote:
>>> (Judy Haffner) wrote:
>>>> love cantaloupe and also yogurt, but don't think I'd care for both
>>>> together. The only "salmonella issue" I've ever heard with cantaloupe
>>>> was when a person cut it and didn't refrigerate it, but left it out at
>
> Scrub the porous skin thoroughly before cuttings to reduce that problem.
> Last I read, it's not the flesh..... but what may have been, the
> contaminated
> soil that it was grown in, stuck in the pours.
>

Yes but the instructions for cutting that I read in the last few days all
said you must remove the rind for safety's sake.