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USDA locks barn door after Listeria escapes

Five months after the CDC posted the initial notice of a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak ultimately traced to Boar’s Head deli meats, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS…

In the case of Boar’s Head, the FSIS allowed a bad situation to become progressively worse, only taking enforcement action once the company had been identified unequivocally as the source of a deadly Listeria monocytogenes outbreak. Had the FSIS acted in October 2022 on the report of its Food Safety Assessment, the outbreak would not have occurred, and ten people would not have lost their lives to a liverwurst sandwich. The effectiveness of these proposed measures will depend on the willingness of FSIS supervisory and management personnel to take prompt and significant action when presented with evidence of violations.

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