date:Sep 12, 2013
st risk for the bacterium are soft cheeses, unpasteurized dairy (including raw milk), deli and lunch meats, smoked fish, cold cuts, hot dogs, pat and meat spreads.
Listeria lives mostly in soil, where it feeds on decaying plants, but it is also fairly ubiquitous, turning up in water, vegetation, marine sediments, sewage, animal feed and even dust. It likes damp places, such as a fish-processing plant. It will proliferate in unsanitary conditions. It can colonize drains, cooling systems and proc