Posted: November 3rd, 2010 - 12:56pm by Doug Powell

When state regulators closed SanGar Fresh Cut Produce of San Antonio after linking the plant with four, maybe five deaths due to listeria, on Oct. 20, 2010, Sangar President Kenneth Sanquist Jr. said in a statement,

“The state's claim that some of our produce now fails to meet health standards directly contradicts independent testing that was conducted on the same products. This independent testing shows our produce to be absolutely safe, and we are aggressively fighting the state's erroneous findings.”

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced this morning they found the same listeria at the facility, matching testing done by the Texas Department of State Health Services at SanGar.

The tests found listeria bacteria in multiple locations in the plant.

Messages left for an attorney for SanGar by The Associated Press were not immediately returned.