United States: Listeria illness deli food from Boar’s Head was claimed to have been responsible for one more death in the same year, making the death total ten. In New York State, the CDC recent update showed one more death.
As reported by the HealthDay, In total, 59 people have fallen ill and have been hospitalized after consuming products from Boar’s Head that contains the lethal bacterium.
It then used the following illustration, “One case involved a woman who became pregnant and got ill during pregnancy, but stayed pregnant after getting well,” the CDC said.
In its September 13 statement, Boar’s Head management stated that all operations at its Jarratt, Virginia plant that was at the center of the listeria contamination will remain shut down.
Company news: Boar’s Head further said that it is also convinced it has identified the source of contaminant.
I have come to find out that the source of the contamination is one process that was unique to the Jarratt plant and used only in production of liverwurst. upon learning of this, we have opted to withdraw liverwurst from the market for good,” the company said in a statement it issued on September, 13.
Those states which have reported fatalities include Florida; Illinois; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York; South Carolina; Tennessee and Virginia.
It is now the biggest listeria outbreak in the United States since another related to contaminated cantaloupes in 2011 the CDC pointed out.
The recall has been extended to 71 products processed between May 10 and July 29 under the Boar’s Head and Old Country brand labels.
Some of the suspect product could still be in family refrigerators because there were some of them stated that had sell dates as far as October.
‘Because the recalled products may have a long shelf life, everyone should look for any left in their homes,’ CDC said. They are widely labeled as EST. 12612 or P-12612 on the product labels within the USDA mark of inspection.
The closure of the Jarratt plant comes after the numerous citations from the USDA’s Food Safety and the Inspection Service FSIS over the past two years.
On July the recall of the Boars Head deli meats and broadened to include an additional 7 million pounds of the products just because they may also have been contaminated with the Listeria monocytogenes bacteria.
Also in the letter from FSIS to the Boars Head Dated on July 31 and the agency said that it was ordering the suspension of the operations at the Jarratt plant due to the repeat failures by the company to maintain the sanitary conditions.”
“Products may have been prepared and also packed or held under the unsanitary conditions whereby the product may have become contaminated with the filth or whereby product may have been rendered injurious to the health,” the FSIS letter stated that.
According to the CBS News, FSIS records showed 69 instances of the noncompliance at the Jarratt plant over the past year.