Listeria Found at South Africa Chicken Plant; Class Action Lawsuit Filed
Tests performed at RCL Foods--the company named as the source of South Africa’s Listeria outbreak--resulted in no traces of the deadly Listeria ST6 strain at the processing plant. However, other strains of the pathogen were detected on the premises that could cause foodborne illness.
In a statement, health officials confirmed that whole genome sequencing did uncover the presence of Listeria monocytogenes, but not the strain that caused the deadly outbreak.