Ryan and Eric Jensen, whose farm produced cantaloupe contaminated with Listeria that killed 35 people and sickened more than 100 others, will not serve prison time or be forced to pay a $1.5 million, a federal judge in Denver has ruled. The brothers, who apologized in court, were sentenced to five years of probation, six … Read more
Just weeks before a deadly Listeria outbreak was linked to Jensen Farms, Primus Labs a third-party auditor, gave the fourth generation cantaloupe farm a 96 percent, superior rating on an audit. If it hadn’t done so, lives and livelihoods could have been spared from the outbreak that sickened 146 people and killed 35, claim the … Read more
Eric and Ryan Jensen, the brothers who owned Jensen Farms, the Colorado cantaloupe farm linked to the 2011 Listeria outbreak that sickened 147 people, killed 35 and caused one miscarriage have reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, according to a document filed filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Denver. The brothers, ages 37 and 33, who … Read more
Eric and Ryan Jensen, the owners of Jensen Farms that was the source of contaminated cantaloupe that caused a nationwide outbreak, were arrested today in Denver on charges brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FDA. The indictment charges the brothers with six counts of adulteration of a food and aiding and abetting. The … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has raised the official death toll of last year’s Jensen Farms cantaloupe Listeria monocytogenes outbreak from 30 to 33. A total of 147 people in 28 states were part of the outbreak. In addition, seven pregnant women were sickened in this outbreak. One suffered a miscarriage, and … Read more
Jensen Farms, the company that grew and shipped the cantaloupes that caused the large Listeria outbreak last summer has filed for bankruptcy. The United States Bankruptcy Court in Colorado has approved the motion, and a date has been set for filing of claims. All people who assert a claim based on the outbreak of listeriosis … Read more