NEW ZEALAND: ‘Bad luck’ behind listeria outbreak, says undersiege company - (NZPA)
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Leonards, the meat products company at the centre of a listeria food poisoning scare in the North Island, says it is operating on a test and release policy for its products.
Leonards Superior Smallgoods issued the second recall of its products in a week after listeria was found in a batch of packaged, cold, corned silverside beef.
The company recalled contaminated packaged roast beef found at Waikato Hospital last week, and yesterday asked supermarkets not to sell its products until they had been proven safe.
The silverside was sent to 18 outlets between Whangarei and Palmerston North in the past two weeks, including Auckland’s North Shore Hospital.
All processed and cold meat had been removed from cafeterias and patient menus at Waitakere and North Shore Hospitals, the Waitemata District Health Board said yesterday.
Leonards director Richard Kornman was cited as saying the company had been supplying the meat for more than 10 years and it […]
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