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# New Zealand Food Company Charged Over Listeria Deaths
- URL: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/06/new-zealand-food-company-charged-over-listeria-deaths/
- Published: 2013-06-08T05:13:55.000Z
- Updated: 2018-07-30T23:48:33.000Z
- Author: News Desk
- Tags: Lawsuits & Litigation, World, Listeria, New Zealand, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-25 08:58

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Bay Cuisine, a New Zealand food company, will face charges in the Napier District Court for a Listeria outbreak last year that killed one woman and contributed to the death of another, [the Dominion Post reports](http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/8771126/Charges-laid-over-listeria-deaths?ref=foodsafetynews.com). Bay Cuisine was the sole supplier of ready-to-eat meats to Hawke’s Bay Hospital, where the two victims were patients. The outbreak strain of Listeria was isolated from the meats and found at Bay Cuisine’s facilities. The outbreak sickened four. A 60 year-old woman died as a direct result of her infection, while the bacteria contributed to the death of an 81 year-old woman. Earlier this week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released [a new report](https://www.foodsafetynews.com/listeria-killed-1-in-5-infected-in-recent-years/) finding that Listeria monocytogenes killed roughly one in five Americans infected in recent years.