Items Tagged with 'listeria'

More people got sick from contaminated food in 2024 than the previous year, with the number of hospitalizations from foodborne illnesses nearly doubling from 2023, according to a recent analysis.

President Donald Trump threatened, then walked back from, new tariffs on imports from Colombia after the country blocked two military deportation flights from the U.S.

Repeated findings of inadequate sanitation practices like meat and fat residue on equipment and structural problems contributed to the listeria outbreak from products made at a Boar’s Head facility in Virginia last summer, according to a USDA report. 

USDA's Inspector General has opened an investigation into the agency’s handling of repeated food safety violations at a Boar’s Head plant linked to a deadly listeria outbreak. 

Parts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee are experiencing devastating crop and farm damage from Hurricane Helene, which touched land on Florida’s panhandle Thursday.

Members of Congress are calling for justice and federal action for those impacted by a listeria outbreak tied to a Virginia Boar’s Head facility as the death toll rises. 

House Republicans this week will put a focus on a key part of the Biden administration’s climate policy that former President Donald Trump is promising to undo if he wins the White House. 

Boar’s Head announced Friday it plans to indefinitely close its Jarratt, Virginia plant, which produced deli meat linked to a deadly listeria outbreak. 

Records show USDA inspectors found about 92 instances of noncompliance between Jan. 1, 2022 and Aug. 1, 2023 at the Boar’s Head Jarratt, Virginia plant now associated with a major listeria outbreak that has left nine dead.