After a deadly listeria outbreak stretched across 18 states and killed at least nine people, Boar’s Head will “indefinitely close” the Jarratt, Virginia, meat plant tied to the outbreak.
The deli meat company made the announcement Friday, in a press release posted to their website emphasizing the “regret” and “pain” that the outbreak and subsequent plant closure caused.
“We regret and deeply apologize for the recent Listeria monocytogenes contamination in our liverwurst product,” the release begins. “We understand the gravity of this situation and the profound impact it has had on affected families. Comprehensive measures are being implemented to prevent such an incident from ever happening again.”
Those measures include Boar’s Head permanently discontinuing liverwurst, which was the product that was recalled for causing the listeria outbreak. The “root cause of the contamination” was “a specific production process that only existed at the Jarratt facility and was used only for liverwurst,” the company said.
Other measures include “establishing a “Boar’s Head Food Safety Council” comprised of independent industry-leading food safety experts,” the “creation of …