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Listeria monocytogenes
• Major concern for RTE refrigerated foods
• 354 billion servings per year in US
• 2500 illnesses
• 500 deaths or long term kidney damage
• Bil Mar Foods - major incident 20 deaths-hotdogs
– Tom Billy of FSIS implicated that those that made
people ill or died were consumed at or near “use by”
date and were temperature abused
– Many manufacturers now set date shorter and good
product discarded