Vulto Creamery ordered to stop sales for food safety violations
The raw milk cheese company is linked to a Listeria outbreak that killed two people.
Vulto Creamery LLC, a Walton, N.Y.-based raw milk cheese company, was ordered by a federal court not to manufacture its ready-to-eat aged soft, semi-soft and hard cheeses until it complies with food safety regulations. Earlier this year, the FDA, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local officials, investigated a multi-state outbreak of listeriosis that was eventually linked to soft cheese produced by Vulto Creamery. Eight people were infected from four states, and two people died, the FDA said.
On March 30, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Vulto Creamery and its owner and manager, Johannes "Jos" H. Vulto. The defendants cannot prepare, process, manufacture, pack and/or hold FDA-regulated food products until they can ensure that Listeria monocytogenes is not present in the facility and the food products.