Listeria with your Salmon?
Jensen's Old Fashioned Smokehouse Inc. Recalls Jensen's Seattle Style Wild Smoked Salmon Spread Lemon Dill and Onion, Because of Possible Health Risk
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Seattle, WA -- October 2, 2007 -- Jensen's Old Fashioned Smokehouse Inc. of Seattle, WA is recalling 936 tubs of Jensen's Seattle Style Wild Smoked Salmon Spread Lemon Dill and Onion which was made by Carso's Pasta of Lynnwood, WA because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
Jensen's Seattle Style Wild Smoked Salmon Spread Lemon Dill and Onion was distributed in retail stores in Western Washington. Jensen's Seattle Style Wild Smoked Salmon Spread Lemon Dill and Onion is coded Sell By 10/20/07. This product was sold in 7 oz. plastic tubs. No illnesses have been CONFIRMED to date. The recall was the result of testing by the FDA which revealed that the finished product contained the bacteria.
