Boar’s Head has tapped dozens of workers for a deep clean of the Virginia plant whose listeria outbreak has led to multiple customer deaths — but the company has no plans to reopen it, The Post has learned.and said it has offered its 500 employees severance packages.
Boar's Head discontinues former fan favorite after it's identified as root of deadly listeria outbreak“Once you have listeria in a facility it’s really hard to eradicate and the inspection reports we’ve seen showed the condition of the plant as a perfect place for listeria to grow,” Marler told The Post.
Older equipment and buildings – the plant was built in 1990, according to public records – is particularly vulnerable versus newer equipment, which is built so that it can be disassembled and taken apart to be sanitized. Boar’s Head “may be reviewing equipment and maintaining certain equipment in order to move it to another facility and use it again if they keep closed,” Hal King, managing partner of Active Food Safety, told The Post.
The fallout from the plant’s closure is already having a dire impact on the local community, with former workers worried how they will pay their bills given the slim employment opportunities in the rural region, as