Boar’s Head fired sanitation manager at listeria-laden Virginia plant after he flagged health, safety issues: ‘They took shortcuts’

A former sanitation manager at Boar’s Head’s listeria-ridden Virginia plant claims he was fired last year after he raised red flags over lax health and safety standards at the now-shuttered facility.

Terrence Boyce — who has nearly two decades of experience as a supervisor at food plants — was hired in 2023 for a newly created position at the Jarratt, Va., plant amid a food safety audit by federal regulators, Boyce told The Post.

“The government found a bunch of deficiencies or deviations and I guess I was brought in as a preventive and a corrective measure,” Boyce said.

But when the sanitation veteran began to speak up and recommend certain changes, he lost his job, he claims.

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Terrence Boyce was a former sanitation manager at the troubled Boar’s Head plant and he wanted to set the record straight about how the plant found itself at the center of a listeria outbreak. WRIC

“I wrote that ‘management was not committed to safety’ and two or three days later, the plant manager tells me I need to change my investigation,” Boyce alleged. “I said, ‘no.’”

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