Six fresh deaths are then linked to a multistate listeria outbreak traced to Boar’s Mind deli meats, as fresh records released by the , Food Safety and Inspection Service , show the company found nearly 70 instances of “noncompliances” at the company’s grow in , Virginia , over the past year.
The six new fatal cases of , Listeria monocytogenes , infections, or listeriosis, include one person in , New York,  , Florida,  , Tennessee , and , New Mexico, as well as two people in , South Carolina,  , the , U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , said in a statement Wednesday.
That brings the total of reported , listeria-linked cases , this summer to 57 — the largest listeriosis outbreak since 2011, when 33 people died from eating , contaminated cantaloupes.
” Everyone should check their homes for any remaining recalled Boar’s Head products since they can have long a shelf-life”, according to the latest , CDC , Food Safety Alert.
The announcement comes as new documents released by , FSIS, an agency of the , U. S. Department of Agriculture , responsible for the safety of meats, poultry and eggs, found 69 violations at the company’s plant in , Jarratt, Virginia.
In the 44-page report,  , obtained by , CBS News , through a Freedom of Information Act request, inspectors write about finding substances that “appeared to be black mold and mildew” in an area of the plant and seeing” small flying gnat-like insects … , crawling on the walls and flying around ]one ] room”, as well as seven ladybugs, one beetle-like and one cockroach-like insect.
Health inspectors “physically” showed the violations to Boar’s Head managers, who were also notified in writing, according to the report.
So far, the , recent listeria outbreak, prompted after a sample of Boar’s Head liverwurst from a , Maryland , store tested positive for the bacteria, has led to a total of , 57 cases reported in 18 states, the , CDC , said.
It also led to the recall of , more than 7 million pounds , of Boar’s Head meat, poultry and cheese products.
In a statement posted on its website, the , Brooklyn-founded meat supplier now headquartered in , Sarasota, Florida, says it “remains committed to the quality and safety of our product” and “deeply ]regrets ] the impact this recall has had on affected families”.
A company’s spokesperson did n’t immediately return a request for comment on the reported , USDA , violations on Thursday.
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