The meat industry has a very successful track record of controlling Listeria. In the U.S., the meat industry has not issued a Listeria recall due to illness from a federally inspected product since 2002.
FSIS data shows that products testing positive for Listeriamonocytogenes have trended steadily downward for the last 10 years. When you sit back and consider why this data looks so good and how the industry has become so adept at controlling Listeria, the answer if fairly simple: We have incorporated Listeria control into the design of our plants.