date:Dec 21, 2012
9 ten days before National Steak and Poultry recalled the remainder of 248,000 pounds of beef products that, finally, were implicated in the outbreak.
In 2008, the medical director of the Ontario (Canada) Public Health Laboratories blamed the lack of genetic typing capabilities for the delay in recognizing Canadas lethal Listeria monocytogenes outbreak. It took three weeks, Low told CBC, for a connection to be made between two suspected listeriosis patients and the contaminated meat that they