How Does Listeria Get Into Donuts?

@Carla Food sabotage is usually at the hands of disgruntled employees, and occasionally owners who may be reluctant to throw unsafe food away. Also poorly trained staff or just lack of enthusiasm for safe food handling. In our area there a case of Worker putting rat poison in the salsa mix, a couple of cases where someone peed in the coffee urn. Another where a worker served oven cleaner thinking it was grape juice.

@Carla It was 2 million cases of donuts (not individual donuts), yes that makes an impact on the food supply. Imagine how much flour was used to make them? And other things and energy to do it.

@cherokeepatti Recalling them and thus reducing the supply of doughnuts is surely a very slight net positive for the population at large!

@ninalanyon Sorry this post went over your head. Move along.

@cherokeepatti It didn't go over my head. My response was simply a poor attempt at levity. Sorry.

I've seen similar reports over the years about listeria and salmonella contamination on similarly large, or worse, scales in much more central foodstuffs like chicken. It seems to be a pretty common occurrence unfortunately.

@ninalanyon A lot more common than it used to be. I got sick one time after eating a cantaloupe, an Athena melon grown in Florida. I was younger then but it hit me hard. If it happened at my age now I’d landed in the hospital. Listeria grows in soil and cantaloupe rind is the perfect vector for it. I wanted to know how it could get into processed food, donuts are deep fried or baked so that would get the germs.