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Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak
Inspectors discovered rusted equipment, condensation dripping on the floor and green mold on the wall two years before a deadly nationwide listeria outbreak.
Inspectors warned that a Boar’s Head plant in southern Virginia had “major deficiencies” that could pose an “imminent threat” tofood safetyafter discovering rusted equipment, condensation dripping on the floor and green mold on the wallnearly two years before a deadly nationwide listeria outbreak, according to government inspection reports released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Deli meat produced at the Jarratt, Va., plant between May 10 and July 29 is believed to be responsible for the deaths of nine people and the hospitalization of dozens of othersin the nation’s largest listeriosis outbreak since 2011. The company previously told The WashingtonPost that its plant team “immediately remediated” noncompliance notifications issued by inspectors and is working with food safety experts to conduct an “extensive investigation” into how its liverwurst became contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
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