Employees had nowhere to wash hands at ice cream factory behind listeria outbreak, FDA says

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9. We had a roof leak once in our dairy plant

Rain water leaking into 5,000 lb vats of cottage cheese.

A supervisor told me to collect the dripping water and plate it for coliform bacteria. He thought if it came out clean, we could package the cheese. I refused, told him our tests don't detect every possible pathogen (who knows what's growing in pigeon shit on the roof) and went straight to my QA manager and the plant manager.

He got his ass reamed out, and we dumped that cheese for pig food.

My standard in my lab has always been, I'm not letting it out the door unless I'm ok feeding it to my own child.