"Jo Anne" > wrote in message
...
> 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

This says to remove the rind:

http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/pdf/8095.pdf

"Always peel cover and refrigerate cut cantaloupe."