Virginia state inspectors found three recent violations of food safety rules at the cook tank where Boar’s Head Provision workers in Jarratt made liverwurst — the product linked to an outbreak of listeria infection that’s killed nine people, a Richmond Times-Dispatch investigation found.
Two of the violations, on two successive days, involved the same problem of too much moisture in the area of the cook tank at the plant in Greensville County, about an hour south of Richmond. These occurred two and three days before Maryland health officials found listeria in Boar’s Head liverwurst, and a week after the death of a Newport News man and hospitalizations of other elderly people sparked investigations into the listeria outbreak.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
