Well, that was quick. When I blogged yesterday about the egg recall, I thought my rhetoric about the dangers of our food system might have been a bit overblown. Don’t I feel silly now. A stateside company called Zemco Industries today announced a recall of 380,000 pounds of deli meat products potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the bacteria that causes listeriosis–an outbreak of which was responsible for 23 deaths in Canada in 2008.
You’d think a product named “Marketside Grab and Go Sandwiches BLACK FOREST HAM With Natural Juices Coated with Caramel Color” would be totally safe, but alas it’s not so.
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