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The Listeria is actually on the cantaloupe, not in it. The knife cutting through the surface and into the fruit introduces it to the inside. The actual bacteria is in the soil. The CDC has not yet released how they believe the Listeria bacteria was introduced into the farm's soil at the site of the 2011 US outbreak.

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