On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:30:12 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:

>Julie Bove wrote:
>> "LeonLeonard" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>That makes no sense to me.

Me neither. I would imagine that if the rind of the melon is
contaminated with salmonella or some other kind of bacteria, as soon
as you cut into it the bacteria would be transferred to the flesh. So
you end up ingesting it anyway.

Just wash the melons, cut them in wedges, and be done with it.

Jo Anne