“We’ve seen this before with deli meats,” an attorney representing the couple said. “[Listeria] gets in the facility, and if you’re not doing deep cleans often enough, it sticks around. That’s how listeria proliferates.”
While a definite link has yet to be proven, Vegas-based Real Water has been identified as a common source in several cases of acute hepatitis.
Seven people have contracted food-poisoning from Almark eggs suspected to be contaminated with listeria bacteria.
Viktoria Nasyrova, a 42-year-old Russian native, allegedly tried to poison a woman who looked like her back in 2016 with tranquilizer-laced cheesecake, so she could steal her identity. The Brooklyn resident thought the poisoning would resemble a suicide and staged the women’s unconscious body to make her scheme believable. “This is a bizarre and twisted
New Safety Rules Implemented for Egg Products
Chipotle Food Safety Concerns Continue — Rodents Scurry About
Chipotle’s Legal Woes Continue As Employees, Customers Fall Ill
While it’s understandable that businesses would prefer to keep certain trade secrets and proprietary formulations under wraps, matters of food safety should be considered in a different light. If brands feel like they would lose market share to competitors who hadn’t sold or distributed dangerous products, perhaps that fear should be realized for the good of consumers everywhere. This is the problem of information asymmetry; that is, when buyers and sellers have different levels of information about a product that lead to different decision-making capabilities.
Another popular cheese company has issued a national recall on many of its cheeses. Vulto Creamery out of Walton, New York, has recently expanded its original recall to include “all lots of four additional cheeses” due to an “ongoing Listeria outbreak that has killed two people” so far. With the additional four kinds of cheese, the Vulto Creamery recall now includes eight different cheeses.