UPDATED: Key Food closes in-store deli over Boar’s Head meats listeria scare and nationwide recall

Photos by Stacie Joy 

Updated 7/31: The deli has reopened. See photo below

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Out of an abundance of caution, Key Food has closed its deli counter for deep cleaning and sanitizing after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) expanded the nationwide recall of the ready-to-eat liverwurst and other deli meat products made by Boar's Head — specifically at its Jarratt, Va. facility.

ABC 7 reports that the company distributed the meat to stores nationwide, as well as to the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Panama.

Per FSIS, these products "may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes."

The expanded recall now includes 71 products made between May 10 and July 29 under the Boar's Head and Old Country brand names.

Recalled products include (in the all-cap style of the FSIS) EXTRA HOT ITALIAN CAPPY STYLE HAM, STEAKHOUSE ROASTED BACON HEAT & EAT, and GARLIC BOLOGNA. 

If you inexplicably bought any of these items, this government release has details on dates and product packaging. 

Per the release: 

Consumption of food contaminated with L. monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects people who are pregnant, aged 65 or older, or with weakened immune systems. Less commonly, persons outside these risk groups are affected. 

Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms.

Key Food management has "removed and discarded all recalled items and anything potentially exposed to those recalled items." 

The deli will reopen after the deep clean. 

Updated 7/31

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