date:May 29, 2012
The Colorado-based firm filed a Chapter 11 notice with the US District Bankruptcy Court in Colorado, citing a long list of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits relating to its Listeria-tainted Rocky Ford brand whole cantaloupes.
A total of 146 people across 28 states were infected with the any of the outbreak-associated strains, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Of these, 30 died and several more deaths have been unofficially attributed to the outbreak