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Maple Leaf Accountable For Listeriosis Outbreak

August 2008 | Company News Alert

The Chief Executive of Canadian food producer Maple Leaf Foods has said that the company is fully accountable for an outbreak of listeriosis food poisoning, which has been linked to the deaths of 15 people and made dozens more sick. The company, which faces a number of class-action lawsuits, has withdrawn 220 items from sale and closed a factory where the contaminated foods were

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