Boars Head Meat Recall due to Listeria contamination

[jedishrfu]

https://arstechnica.com/science/202...de-outbreak-that-spurred-massive-meat-recall/

A third person has died in a nationwide bacterial outbreak linked to Boar's Head brand deli meats. Last week, the company recalled more than 7 million pounds of its meats, which was in addition to a recall of over 200,000 pounds of meat from July 26. In all, 71 types of products made between May 10, 2024, and July 29, 2024, and sold nationwide have been recalled.

According to an update Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the outbreak has now sickened a total of 43 people, an increase from 34 last week. There have been 43 hospitalizations, up from 33 last week. The illnesses are reported from 13 states. The three deaths in the outbreak include one from Illinois and one from New Jersey, and the newly reported death is from Virginia. The CDC expects the tally of illnesses so far to be a significant undercount of actual cases, and additional states may be affected.

 

[Vanadium 50]

My grocery store's deli counter was bare. Not just meat, but cheeses and cole slaw and the like. Dark times.

And who thought "Boar's Head" was a good name for a company? What's in this sausage? Boar's head!

 

[jedishrfu]

We always bought Boars Head over the store brands, and we usually use cheese, turkey, and ham for sandwiches without a problem.

But recently, my son and his family got a fever, chills, and diarrhea that I thought could have come from it. They thought it came from the two-year-old because he had the first diarrhea symptoms.

Earlier outbreaks in Texas involved chicken and eggs, and before that, Bluebell Ice Cream.

It's funny how these have been attributed to the pandemic with reduced staff, maybe foggy memory of those working the cooking works.

 

[Baluncore]

There needs to be a regular, shutdown and sterilisation of the equipment on the line, to prevent the establishment of a resident pathogen, that can then continuously infect future production.

Cleaning costs money, complacency rules, so a machine will not be shut down if it seems to be working. The problem is left for the coroner and the insurance company.

Fermented meat and milk products, are seeded with a fermentation starter. If that starter becomes contaminated with a pathogen, all production will be contaminated from that source, until it is detected and rectified.

 

[mcastillo356]

Hi, PF

Wikipedia is updated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar's_Head_Provision_Company