The Good Food Chain, a UK manufacturer of products for the foodservice channel, confirmed it has gone into liquidation despite being cleared by an investigation into a recent Listeria outbreak at a number of local hospitals.
Some 125 full-time employees have lost their jobs as a result.
The company, based in Stone, Staffordshire, in the English Midlands, has ceased trading, it confirmed in a statement on its website.
This is despite the UK regulator, The Food Standards Agency, stating that the company was not the source of the outbreak and could now resume production. It said that “the business has been verified as meeting food safety legislation and as following best practice for manufacturing, cleaning and environmental standards”.
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