Jensen Farms Files For Bankruptcy Following Listeria Outbreak

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Jensen Farms, the Colorado cantaloupe growers who were the source of a deadly listeria outbreak last year, have filed for bankruptcy according to a recent article in the Denver Post.

Lawsuits from the outbreak, which caused at least 32 deaths and dozens of hospitalizations, are prominent in the filing. Attorneys for Jensen Farms and for wrongful-death plaintiffs welcomed the step.

Jensen Farms did not comment. The company’s bankruptcy attorney, Jim Markus, said the filing should free up millions of dollars in insurance and other funds, aiding families and victims of the incident.

“We’re hopeful the bankruptcy process is a mechanism to help get them paid, as quickly as we can distribute it to victims,” Markus said.

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Avatar for Matt Matt says:

Isn't it nice how the article conviently leaves out the SOURCE of the lysteria, which was from a confined animal feedlot that spolied melons were being delivered. The contamination was the fault of the packing house personnel who allowed the delivery truck to enter the packing house after returning from the confined animal feed lot before it was sanitized. Feces from the feedlot, which were contaminted with lysteria, entered the packing house on the wheels of the truck and contaminated the packing house. So the SOURCE of the lysteria was a confined animal feedlot. The CONTAMINATION was the fault of Jensen Farms personnel, who did not follow proper sanitation procedures. I think it IS important to put blame on BOTH sources. Confined animal feedlots are the source of almost all of the deadly pathogens in our food supply today. The fact that they are getting into produce from a delivery truck should tell us that the practice of confining animals in a huge numbers into feedlots is not good health policy when it comes to our food supply.

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