A growing national food-safety investigation has tied additional deaths and illnesses to recalled frozen pasta meals made by a Northern California company.
Federal health officials said the Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to Nate’s Fine Foods of Roseville has now sickened 27 people in 18 states, with 25 hospitalized and six dead, according to an update last week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The outbreak was first identified in June and has since widened as investigators trace the contamination through the national food supply…