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February 1, 2008

Family decides not to reopen milk processing plant

SUTTON, Mass. — The owners of a milk processing plant linked to a listeria outbreak that resulted in the deaths of three people have decided not to reopen the facility.

Wayne Whittier, owner of the Whittier Farms plant in Shrewsbury, Mass., tells the Worcester Telegram and Gazette that he was forced to close the plant because of the high cost of decontaminating it, as well as a drop in business at a retail store there.

Public health officials identified various strains of listeria in milk samples and on equipment at the plant.

The family will sell the milk from the cows on its Sutton farm to other processors.

Three men died of listeriosis contracted after drinking contaminated milk and a pregnant woman became ill and miscarried.

-- The Associated Press

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