This summer's widespread outbreak of listeria infections tied to recalled Boar’s Head deli meats has had many people combing their refrigerators to see if they had purchased the tainted products. And with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s announcement Wednesday that the death toll from the outbreak had risen to nine with 57 hospitalized, more consumer questions arose about the recalled meat.
Here’s what to know:
In late July, Boar's Head recalled a liverwurst product, along with a handful of other products that had been made on the same line and day at its Virginia plant. Four days later, the company expanded the list and recalled 7 million additional pounds of meat, including a number of varieties of ham, bacon, bologna, frankfurters, sausage, pate and head cheese sold under Boar’s Head and Old Country brands. The company has posted a complete list of the recalled products on its website (also included below), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture published images of their labels.
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