Boar’s Head is rolling out extensive food safety initiatives in the wake of a 2024 Listeria outbreak that sickened 61 people and led to 10 deaths across 19 states.

The outbreak was linked to contaminated liverwurst produced at the company’s Jarrett, VA., facility. In response, Boar’s Head recalled more than

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Over a year of repeated sanitation failures — totaling 69 violations — at Boar’s Head’s Virginia plant, appears to have fueled the ongoing Listeria outbreak that has sickened 57 people across 18 states and claimed nine lives.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection report detailing significant sanitation failures at a

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported new cases and deaths associated with the ongoing Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to Boar’s Head deli meats. Since the last update on Aug. 8, 2024, 14 more people have fallen ill, and six additional deaths have been confirmed, bringing the

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Boar’s Head Provisions Co., Inc. of Jarratt, VA., is recalling all liverwurst product produced by the establishment that is currently available in commerce because it may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The company is also recalling additional

Continue Reading 200,000 pounds of liverwurst and deli meats recalled over positive Listeria test, possible link to 33 hospitalizations and two deaths

Pursuit to a 16-page plea agreement that leaves little to the imagination, a former raw milk cheese manufacturer and the company he owned and managed pleaded guilty today to charges related to cheese that was linked to a deadly outbreak of listeriosis.

Johannes Vulto and his company, Vulto Creamery LLC

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The mortality rate hit 50 percent, with three deaths out of six Listeriosis illnesses in a recent Washington State outbreak blamed on milkshakes served at a Frugals restaurant in Tacoma.

The Washington State Health Department reports that between February 27 and July 22, 2023, six Washington State residents (five from

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Le Fromage au Village Inc. is recalling Le Cru du Clocher raw milk cheddar cheese from the marketplace because of Listeria monocytogenes contamination.

This recall was triggered by findings by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency during its investigation into a foodborne illness outbreak.

There have been reported illnesses that may

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Two Listeria monocytogenes illnesses in Texas and one in Delaware with one death between them is so far a small outbreak that’s brought on Saturday night’s massive recall of Tyson chicken.

Tyson’s Dexter, MO unit recalled almost 8,5 million pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) chicken products because of those illnesses.  See
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The relatively slow pace for foodborne illness outbreaks is continuing in the first quarter, much as it did this past year during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the end of the first quarter, only a couple of weeks off, only three multistate outbreaks are under active investigation by the federal Centers
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