Meat Plants Warned to Test for Listeria
From Times Wire Reports
U.S. meat companies that do not routinely test their plants for the potentially deadly bacterium listeria will be subject to increased food-safety inspections starting next month, the Agriculture Department said.
The USDA’s directive, which takes effect Dec. 9, came in reaction to a summer listeria outbreak that killed seven people in the Northeast and prompted the nation’s largest meat recall.
About 1,500 meat plants will be affected by the directive, a USDA spokesman said.
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