That's what happens when you don't take the time to properly train employees in safety and sanitation. Or hiring people that don't take the seriousness or responsibilities of the job to heart. Do you think the person whose job it was to clean and sanitize that equipment wanted to kill people or make them sick?
This is a management problem from the top down. Nobody will be held to account. $$$ will be paid but that's it.
But if diaper Don gets sick from one of those burgers he loves so much, I'm sure somebody's head will roll.

health crises will be a regular occurrence once the incoming regime and DOGE totally gut the regulations. Of course, reporting of many such outbreaks will be suppressed so the general public will lack any awareness.

I’ve been buying sliced turkey from a local small grocery that roasts the turkeys instead of just stocking commercial products.

Like with Amazon, employees and low- level managers pressured to be more and more efficient with fewer and fewer people. And graded on doing that above all.

Nothing will change until the Plant Manager is charged with homicide. Old Quality Manager here for the Big 3 and the buck should stop with the C-Level Executives.

Food Plants need training for everyone every year, with Doctors check-ups with Shots taken, and Records at HR that match up with payroll

I have worked in labor intensive factories and it is management that cuts cost by not taking the time or expense to make sure product is safe. Who do you think orders the process of production? The worker? I can see you"ve never been in the actual process of production>>>so stop the BS and get real

I don’t see any one blaming employees.

Now what happens. $100 fine and a promis to clean up more?

... they display them, I think the amount they actually sell has dropped significantly. For a brief period they stopped selling ALL meat and cheese (even their own brand) because of the fear of cross-contamination.

I avoid that counter, even now... instead I'll just by my deli style meats pre-packaged, or from Costco in bulk and freeze them for later. (Maybe I'm fooling myself... it could be that the risks are just as great with pre-packed deli meats and deli-style cheeses.)

people get lazy over time and that is bad... years ago I had a husband die from complications of listeria (From bad deli meat) and I know all too well how important good practices are

The executives and management at Boars Head corporation have allowed this awful situation. Do you think if they were really concerned they would have let it go on to the point where people are dying and filing suits against them? They killed people in order to squeeze out a few extra dollars by not paying people to clean. That is a decision made at corporate headquarters. That's Not a decision some lowly worker makes.

Dirty processing facilities are not a deep dark secret that is hidden from the CEO and their executives. They know how it happened and did nothing....until they were caught.

By not ensuring sanitary conditions or giving workers paid time to clean. And it's not just saving one person's labor costs. It's saving 100s of people's labor costs.

Now they got listeria in the facility. It's a really difficult pathogen to kill out once it gets a foothold.

Don't eat Boars Head!!!!! I bet this is a problem in other facilities too. It sounds like someone in corporate was looking at labor savings in sanitary procedures.

Can you say "Regulations" boys and girls? Regularions are a good and necessary thing. They protect the company and the public.
But noooo, they think their bottom line cannot afford the cost of quality and control. All they have to do is hire a degreed specimen processor to swab equipment, floor, wall & door knobs, etc. of each station every night after everyone leaves. Run them to the lab and drop off immediately. ASAP, Microciologists sets up cultures & checks them at 24 hrs and 48 hrs. They can tell in 24 hrs if the culture is growing bacteria, and in 48 hrs, they can report exactly what bacteria is growing from each and every swab. Viola'! If this practice is not required by the USDA, WTF?

That's their advertising slogan. Appears they did take their advertising advice a little too far.

Not a good look for the boar or it's head.

And, before we forget, this is only one item out of quite a few items that had contamination issues, such as some salad brands (that is why I don't buy any prepared salads), and I'm sure that there are quite a few other brands of foods that have had issues w/ their food quality.

I would suspect that the more an item is processed in order to get to the store shelves, that chances are better that contamination issues arise. Not 100% by far, and of course, depending on where you get your products makes a heck of a difference. The competence of the behind the counter people as well as the store mgmt counts for a lot. In the Boar's Head issue described above, they (the Feds) mentioned basic hygiene issues w/ the equipment in the manufacturing of Boar's Head, a rather disturbing thing to me, IMHO.

I guess just be safe in buying literally anything. The more processed an item is, the more danger (it goes through more stuff, allowing more chances of possible contamination).

After seeing this report, I'll never buy Boars Head products again. It happened once, that's enough for me

It is the only deli meat available, unless you call Oscar Meyer bologna deli meat.

Just found out they are owned by Smithfield

Who threw you the clue?
Thing that gets me is why they just fine these guys (Boar's Head, the baby formula plant, etc.) instead of shutting them down the FIRST time and ordering them to clean up. But no, they just fine them, over and over, and nothing gets done!

I (might) purchase some imports. But no way am I going to purchase American made deli meat from whatever source.
If I want roast beef or corned beef, I'll just by the cut and instant pot it. "The Jungle" here we come!

And everywhere. All to save a penny here and a penny there. Greedy slugs.