Ever since the Maple Leaf listeria outbreak that killed 21 in Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has sure been on the case. We have two more listeria-related recall alerts from north of the border. Both involve Piller. The first was issued on Monday of this week, and the second yesterday.
Here’s the official poop:
Reading, MI-based Torres Hillsdale Country Cheese has been recalling its various cheeses since last month. It has now put out another request for return of it Oaxaca soft Mexican-style cheese due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
The cheese was distributed in Illinois and Minnesota.
The recalled Oaxaca cheese product was distributed to retails stores
We love Canada and the UK. After every major outbreak, there is always some high level inquiry or royal commission to hear from. This time, its Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, making the report on the listeria outbreak blamed on the meat cutting machinery at Maple Leaf Foods Toronto plant.
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Here’s another listeria-related recall of sprouts just in from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
Amalgamated Produce, Inc. (API), Bridgeport, CT, announced a voluntary recall today of its Specialty Farms, Vermont Sprout House, Nature’s Promise and BroccoSprouts (noted as distributed by API, Bridgeport, CT) sprout items with sell by date codes of March 31 through April 27, 2009.
These sprouts are being recalled because they may have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (Lm). Lm is 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.
There have been no cases of Listeriosis reported to date in connection with these products and API is issuing this recall as a precaution.
Amalgamated Produce, Inc. voluntarily recalled these sprouts after laboratory analysis in a finished product sample collected by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets tested positive.
The following describes the products that are being recalled. All these products have a sell by date code from March 31 through April 27, 2009. All these items are net weight 4 ounces, with the noted exception of Nature’s Promise Organic Alfalfa 8 ounce.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned consumers not to eat Strubs Norwegian Style Sliced Smoked Steelhead Salmon in 300 gram packages because of potential contamination with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes.
Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen that can cause serious illness and death.
Distributed by West Side Foods Inc. of Bronx, N.Y.
Since August 2008 twenty-one Canadians have died after eating Maple Leaf deli meats contaminated with Listeria. We all watched in horror as the worst food safety crisis in modern Canadian history rolled across the country.
There are six different kinds of Listeria. Five of them are harmless. The sixth, called Listeria monocytogenes is