August 2007

Georgia sample of Italian-made Ricotta Salata cheese, officials said this morning.

The agriculture department said the contamination was found in a package imported under the brand name of Locatelli and marked to sell by Jan. 21. The cheese was imported by The Ambriola Company, Inc. of Jersey City, New Jersey.

"We have notified the U.S.

Ocean King Enterprises is recalling Ready-to-Eat Seafood Dips. The company says the dips are potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogens. The organism can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail and elderly people.

Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea,

New York State is warning people not to eat "Neparovana Smoked Sausage” sold at Muncan Foods in Ridgewood, Queens because of possible Listeria contamination.

State Commissioner Patrick Hooker of the Agriculture Department says the "Neparovana Smoked Sausage” was sold bulk from the stores deli display cooler. It is not coded. Muncan Food Corporation is voluntarily

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the recall of 7,500 IFS Inc. vending machine and store-sold sandwiches due to possible contamination.

The FDA said the South Elgin, Ill., company discovered some of the sandwiches might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes

The Miami Herald recently reported on an interesting case:

Timothy DeLong, president of Atlantis Foods, acknowledged that his company failed to notify clients that six shipments of food in 2003 were tainted with Listeria monocytogenes.

According to the two-count information charging DeLong, he failed to initiate a product recall or to tell customers that his