Listeria Outbreak linked to Boar’s Head
Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback data show that Boar’s Head meats, including Boar’s Head brand liverwurst, were contaminated with Listeria, and have resulted in 59 reported illnesses. All 59 people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria have been hospitalized with 10 deaths reported.
States where illnesses have been reported
NCBI Cluster PDS000185351.39
67 isolates
61 clinical, 1 ham, 5 liverwurst
Ham is 1 to 4 SNPs from clinicals
Liverwurst is 0 to 8 SNPs from clinicals
61 Clinicals:
Distance between clinical isolates: minimum = 0 SNPs, maximum = 6 SNPs, average = 1 SNPs
WGS date range: 2024-06-10 to 2024-10-03
September 25, 2024. Since
Listeria Outbreak linked to Boar’s Head
Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback data show that Boar’s Head meats, including Boar’s Head brand liverwurst, were contaminated with Listeria, and have resulted in 59 reported illnesses. All 59 people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria have been hospitalized with 10 deaths reported.
States where illnesses have been reported
As of August 28, a total of 59 people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria have been reported from 19 states – Including: Arizona 1, Florida 3, Georgia 2, Illinois 1, Indiana 1, Louisiana 1, Maryland 8, Massachusetts 3, Minnesota 1, Missouri 3, New Jersey 5, New Mexico 1, New York 17, North Carolina
TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (NYSE: THS) is voluntarily recalling certain frozen waffle products listed below due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals may suffer
Families seek compensation for deaths of loved ones
Seattle, WA – Marler Clark, the Food Safety Law Firm, filed three additional Listeria wrongful death complaints against Boar’s Head today. One case was filed in Federal Court in New York, Complaint #1:24-cv-07184, and two were filed in Federal Court in Virginia, Complaint #3:24-cv-00737 and Complaint #3:24-cv-00739
A recall of ready-to-eat meat and poultry items made by BrucePac has been expanded to include nearly 1.8 million pounds of additional products, for a total of more than 11.7 million pounds of products recalled over possible listeria contamination, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service says.
The products were distributed to
Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria and Cyclospora outbreaks under investigation.
Details of this release were updated to note the addition of 1,779,040 pounds of product subject to recall, increasing the weight from 9,986,245 to 11,765,285 pounds. This recall release has also been updated to reflect that recalled products were also distributed to schools. A school distribution list is not available at this time.
FSIS wants
