美国对去年的香瓜李斯特菌疫情开展联邦刑事调查

    食品伙伴网讯  据美国食品安全新闻网报道，针对去年香瓜引发的李斯特菌疫情，美国展开了联邦刑事调查，目前调查工作已接近尾声。问题香瓜产自科罗拉多州詹森农场，疫情导致数百人感染。
   
    部分原文报道如下：
   
        The U.S. Attorney for Colorado is close to finishing a federal criminal investigation into the deadly 2011 Listeria outbreak associated with cantaloupes from Jensen Farms, the nonprofit Denver-based I-News Network reports.
       
       
        James Pena, who heads the U.S. District Attorney's health care fraud task force, called the Listeria outbreak  "an important public health issue," according to I-News, which is associated with most major Colorado news outlets.
       
       
        Neither Pena nor anyone else speaking for John Walsh, the U.S. District Attorney for Colorado, will confirm or deny the existence of the investigation. I-News says it is confident the criminal probe is underway based on multiple sources.
       
       
        The victims and their families clearly want to see criminal charges filed. A 92-year-old man  from Kansas City, Paul Schwarz, died after weeks of suffering from listeriosis contracted after eating Jensen Farms' cantaloupes. 
       
       
        "I would love to see the Jensen brothers in handcuffs being marched off to jail," his son and namesake, Paul Schwarz, told Food Safety News  "Three years isn't enough for the misery that their sloppy processing laid on the families of the dead and others that were sickened."
       
       
        One who says a probe is underway, as first reported by Bloomberg News, is nationally known food safety attorney Bill Marler, who represents most of the victims of the Listeria outbreak and their families. 
       
       
        The Seattle-based attorney, who is also publisher of Food Safety News, said his law offices shared its case files with federal investigators three weeks ago and was led to understand that they were needed was for an ongoing investigation.
       
       
    It was last year, after Labor Day, that Colorado health officials began receiving an unusual number of reported cases of Listeria, which was fairly quickly associated with "Rocky Ford" cantaloupe grown in the state along the Arkansas River.
   
    原文链接：<http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/08/deadly-listeria-outbreak-focus-of-criminal-probe/>