March 2007

The following recalls have been announced: DBC Foods Inc. is recalling potato salad sold both prepackaged and at deli counters, because it could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Listeria is a microorganism that can cause serious or fatal infections in children, the elderly or those with weakened immune systems.

It can also cause miscarriages and

Science Daily — Take a serving of extracts from green tea or Jasmine tea, mix in some wildflower dark honey and you have something more useful than a drink. It’s actually a scientific mixture that can be used to reduce pathogenic bacteria in meats.

“Our results indicated that Jasmine tea with honey and green tea

England – The company, Anchor Catering Ltd, produces up to 10,000 sandwiches every day.  Thousands of sandwiches supplied to schools, hospitals and businesses in the South East may have been infected with listeria, food watchdogs say.  Kent-based Anchor Catering Ltd has supplied food thought to have been contaminated to local authorities in Kent, Sussex, Surrey,

Potato salad sold under the Coborn’s, Cash Wise and Midwest Pride brands in Minnesota and six other states may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture warned Friday.

The potato salad was sold in two forms:

# Prepackaged one-pound containers with lot number 7057018A sold under the Midwest Pride, Coborn’s and

Carolina Culinary Foods, a West Columbia, S.C., firm, is voluntarily expanding its Feb.18 recall of fully cooked Oscar Mayer/Louis Rich chicken breast cuts and strips that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced.
The front of each package subject to this recall bears the establishment

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