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		<title>Deaths and Illnesses Reported in Listeria Outbreak Tied to Recalled Pasta Meals</title>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Two new deaths and seven more illnesses have been reported in an expanding outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to recalled pasta meals sold at grocery stores including Walmart and Trader Joe&#8217;s in many states. In total, at least six &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Boar&#8217;s Head Faces Legal Scrutiny Over Deadly Listeria Outbreak</title>
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					<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 05:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Boar&#8217;s Head, the deli meat company at the center of a deadly listeria food poisoning outbreak, is being scrutinized by law enforcement officials, the U.S. Agriculture Department disclosed in response to government records requests. Officials with USDA&#8217;s Food Safety and &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Boar&#8217;s Head Closing Virginia Plant Linked to Deadly Listeria Outbreak</title>
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					<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Boar&#8217;s Head said Friday it&#8217;s closing the Virginia plant tied to a deadly listeria outbreak. The Sarasota, Florida-based company said it will also permanently discontinue production of liverwurst, the product that was linked to the deaths of at least nine &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Listeria Outbreak Linked to Deli Meats Claims 5 More Lives, CDC Says</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that a Listeria outbreak linked to deli meats has resulted in 14 new illnesses and five additional deaths. This brings the total to 57 cases, all of which required &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>No Liability Coverage Owed for Investor Losses Caused by Blue Bell&#8217;s Listeria Outbreak</title>
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					<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A 2015 Listeria outbreak linked to ice cream sold by Blue Bell Creameries hospitalized 10 people and killed three. While those injuries and deaths were certainly &#8220;bodily injuries,&#8221; a lawsuit filed by investors against Blue Bell&#8217;s board of directors for &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas&#8217; Blue Bell Creameries to Pay $17.25M in Penalties for Listeria Contamination</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 06:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries L.P. has been ordered to pay $17.25 million in criminal penalties for shipments of contaminated ice cream products linked to a 2015 listeriosis outbreak, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Blue Bell pleaded guilty in May &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Listeria-Related Charges Against Ex-Blue Bell Creameries President Dismissed</title>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has dismissed charges against the former president of Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries, who U.S. prosecutors said concealed from customers what the company knew about contaminated ice cream linked to a 2015 listeria outbreak. U.S. District Judge Robert &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vermont Cheesemaker Shutting Down After Listeria Outbreak, Recall</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[An award-winning Vermont cheesemaker that sold its cheeses around the country is shutting down after a listeria outbreak and recall. Consider Bardwell in West Pawlett says that its current funds do not allow it to continue manufacturing and sell cheese. &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blue Bell Creameries&#8217; Directors to Face Investor Claims Over Listeria Outbreak</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2018/07/09/494370.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew G. Simpson]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2018 05:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Blue Bell Creameries&#8217; directors must face claims that their mismanagement led to a 2015 listeria outbreak that forced the ice-cream maker to recall all its products and lose millions of dollars in sales. Investors raised legitimate points in a lawsuit &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dole Settles Suits Over Salad-Related Listeria Outbreak</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2017/05/01/449659.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 16:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Court documents show that Dole Fresh Foods has recently settled two lawsuits filed by families of people stricken by a listeria outbreak after eating salads packaged in Ohio. The Springfield News-Sun reports settlement terms weren&#8217;t disclosed by the company or &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lawsuit Blames Death on Salad, Listeria Outbreak at Ohio Dole Plant</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2016/06/03/410878.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges an Ohio woman died because she ate salad processed at a Dole plant linked to a listeria outbreak. The Springfield News-Sun reports the lawsuit says a 79-year-old Franklin County woman died in February after &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blue Bell: Listeria Likely Spread Through Oklahoma Plant Drainage System</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/04/03/404108.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 21:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Blue Bell Creameries told federal inspectors that it believes that listeria bacteria spread at its Oklahoma plant through a drainage system, but the company said it couldn&#8217;t identify a single source of listeria that contaminated equipment at its flagship facility &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New Food Safety Rules Aim to Avoid Another Blue Bell</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2015/09/11/381358.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Sweeping new rules meant to curtail food borne illnesses that sicken one in six Americans each year will require food companies to create and follow new preventive safety measures, U.S. regulators announced on Sept. 10. The rules require food companies &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>1/4 of Texas Listeria Cases not Tracked or Recorded: Report</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2015/07/20/375793.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[State health records reviewed following the Blue Bell ice cream listeria outbreak show that a quarter of Texas cases involving the foodborne illness are not recorded or tracked. The Houston Chronicle reported that Texas has never enforced a law that &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blue Bell to Test New Quality-Control, Safety Procedures at Alabama Plant</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2015/07/13/374785.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 04:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Blue Bell Creameries said July 8 that it plans to test production runs at its Alabama plant as the company inches toward putting its ice cream back on grocery store shelves. Blue Bell notified Alabama health officials and the U.S. &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blue Bell Reaches Product Contamination Agreement with Alabama Health Officials</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 04:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Blue Bell Creameries says it has entered a voluntary agreement with the Alabama Department of Public Health that includes requiring the company to inform the state whenever there is a positive test result for listeria in its products or ingredients. &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Scoop on Recall Insurance and Listeria-Linked Ice Cream</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/05/22/368514.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2015 10:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[While peanut butter and cantaloupe made big news in recent years, ice cream is now the latest item to be pulled off grocery store shelves due to foodborne-illness. Brenham, Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries&#8217; listeria-tainted ice cream has been linked to &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Georgia Education Officials Checking Schools for Recalled Ice Cream</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Georgia education officials say they&#8217;re working with the state health department to make sure ice cream products that were recently recalled aren&#8217;t being served in schools. Department of Education spokesman Matt Cardoza said in a statement that the Georgia Department &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wal-Mart Settles Claims Over Listeria Deaths Linked to Cantaloupes</title>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 12:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart has settled lawsuits with the families of 23 people who died from a 2011 listeria outbreak traced to cantaloupe grown at a Colorado farm and sold by the retailer, both sides said on Wednesday. Thirty-three people died and 147 &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Farm Traced To Listeria Outbreak Files Bankruptcy</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 15:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A Colorado farm that was traced to a listeria outbreak in cantaloupe last year has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Jensen Farms declined to comment on its filing Friday. Its attorney Jim Markus told The Denver Post the filing &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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