The insurance company for San Antonio-based Sangar Fresh Cut Produce says its own fine print is enough to excuse it from paying a $1.1 million default judgment to the family of a man killed by Listeria-contaminated celery.
Hermilo Castellanos, 81, was one of five people who died in Listeriosis outbreak…
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A Texas produce company has been ordered to pay $1.1 million in damages to the family of a man who died after eating contaminated celery from a San Antonio processing plant.
Bexar County District Court Judge Barbara Nellermoe ordered Sangar Fresh Cut Produce to pay medical costs and damages to…
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The widow of a man who died from a Listeria monocytogenes infection has sued Sangar Fresh Cut Produce in a Texas court.
Elizabeth Castellano claims her husband, Hermillo Castellano, died as a result of eating contaminated celery from the San Antonio-based plant.
According to the complaint, Castellano was in a…
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Another day brings more bad news for still-closed SanGar Fresh Cut Produce. This time it was the release of the FDA Form 483 report containing observations of the federal food safety inspectors who were in the San Antonio produce distribution plant from Oct. 14 to 26.
It came out…
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After third-party audits turned out to be embarrassments for Peanut Corporation of America and Wright County Egg, the independent inspection industry must be hoping the “third strike” won’t come at a now closed Texas produce plant.
SanGar Produce & Processing Co. has its independent lab retesting the San Antonio produce…
The president of the company whose plant was shut down by the Texas Department of State Health Services has questioned the validity of tests linking celery processed there to a deadly Listeria outbreak.
Kenneth Sanquist Jr. of Sangar Produce & Processing in San Antonio said in a statement Thursday that…
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Sangar Fresh Cut Produce is in the midst of a public relations nightmare, now that everybody who pays attention to food safety events knows that it is at the center of a Listeria outbreak that may have killed four people.
Sangar’s brass is taking a pretty brash stance on its…
Deadly chopped celery contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes was traced back Wednesday to Sangar Fresh Cut Produce in San Antonio, and the company was ordered to stop processing food and recall all products shipped since January.
The order came from the Texas Department of State Health Services, which acted under a…
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