Texas food factory closed, packaged produce recalled after 5 deaths.

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39776599/ns/health-food_safety/

SAN ANTONIO — Texas health officials investigating five deaths have closed a San Antonio food processing plant and ordered a recall of all products shipped from there since January.

The Texas Department of State Health Services said the recalled SanGar Produce & Processing Co. items include fresh cut fruit and vegetables in sealed packages that are distributed to restaurants, hospitals and schools.

The agency said it closed the SanGar plant Wednesday after the agency linked six of 10 known cases of listeriosis to chopped celery produced at the plant. It did not say how many of the five listeriosis deaths it is investigating are linked to the plant. Symptoms of listeriosis include fever, muscle aches, diarrhea and vomiting.


"The state's claim that some of our produce now fails to meet health standards directly contradicts independent testing that was conducted on the same products," Sanquist said. "This independent testing shows our produce to be absolutely safe, and we are aggressively fighting the state's erroneous findings."

[w8liftinglady]

1. Texas is notorious for falling below standards in food safety

http://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/animal-and-plant-health-inspection-service

[joeybee12]

2. Now you see...this is the reason we want a smaller government...

so MORE things like this can happen. :crazy:

[w8liftinglady]

3. I worked for the Texas Animal Health Commission YEARS ago...

before I was a nurse....it was crazy the shit you'd see...trying to sneak into the US food industry...

conscientious ranchers and farmers had a real problem with it,too.they've been sold out.

[Lyric]

4. Listeria, huh?

Probably came from ceiling condensation in the processing plant. We had people whose only job was to walk around the processing floor with a sponge mop wrapped in paper towels and wipe up every bit of "wet" that they saw on the ceiling.

[nc4bo]

5. This is terrible! Also......

I also kept going on that link and read that there's a recall on frozen veggies that have shards of glass in them.

:wtf: