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Meat slicer linked to Listeria infections in Italian hospital

By News Desk on May 27, 2021

A contaminated meat slicer was behind four Listeria infections in an Italian hospital in late 2020, according to a study.

Researchers said it was the first report of an outbreak of listeriosis caused by sequence…
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Reporting delay likely impacted size of sandwich Listeria outbreak

By Joe Whitworth on November 10, 2020

Later infections in a deadly Listeria outbreak traced to sandwiches served in hospitals in England could have been prevented, according to an investigation into the incident.

The first outbreak patient in April 2019 was not…
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Hospital food review includes food safety focus

By News Desk on October 28, 2020

A review into hospital food in England following a fatal Listeria outbreak this past year includes plans to improve food safety.

The work, ordered by Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock in June 2019, …
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Listeria found for years at site of sandwich producer

By Joe Whitworth on September 25, 2020

The factory of a sandwich producer in England linked to an illness was contaminated by Listeria for almost three years, a report into the incident has found.

In July 2017, Listeria monocytogenes was isolated from…
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Amount of food-attributed Listeria cases rising but still low

By Joe Whitworth on March 18, 2020

The proportion of Listeria infections where a food source is identified is very small but increasing, according to researchers who looked at a 30-year period in England and Wales.

Between 1981 and 2015, there were…
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