Re: An approved processing aid against Listeria

On the internet I read your interesting article about Mill stream Co's cold Salmon contaminated with Listeria and caused many deaths and sick people.

I am writing to you because I am a former listeriosis patient. Luckily I had a strong enough immune system so I did not die, but I was very, very sick!

I gather you do not know of the product called LISTEX P100. Listex is a safe (FDA approved as GRAS = Generally Recognised as Safe) phage preparation produced by the Dutch company Micreos Food Safety in Wageningen. (See link: http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2011/05/usda-approves-listex-as-processing-aid-against-listeria.aspx . ) It is also approved as a processing aid by Health Canada and in many other countries. It is a natural and relatively inexpensive product, much cheaper than destructing a great lot of good product or having to worry night and day about possible product contaminations with Listeria or the bad reputation you can get in your business. A great amount of advertising money down the drain! Above that a lot of investing to save your revenue!

Micreos’ website is: www.micreosfoodsafety.com . In my view it is worthwhile to contact them. They are working worldwide. On the site you will see how it works. The product can also be used on all organic products (OMRI listed), it is effective against only Listeria (leaving even the ‘good’ bacteria in place), and has no effect on any other food properties (color, odor, texture, taste).

It could also be valuable for a company to use Listex, because it is an approved and effective measure against Listeria monocytogenes and every food producer can use it. Because of the high risk associated with Listeria, if the company does not take measures against it, they could expose themself to liability. Sadly, more than 400 deaths in the US and Canada underscore this!
Listex is very well known in the food business, it was honoured with the gold award of the Food Ingredients Europe.

Contacting www.Micreos.com can mean the salvage of a company. And also can save many deaths and illnesses like mine!

To be precise: I am not on the pay list of Micreos Food Safety, I am just working to ban the Listeria bacteria. I do not want other people to suffer from listeriose like I did.

Perhaps you could write an article about Listex. You can find it on the Internet and Micreos can supply you with all the details you want.

May I ask you your opinion on how to ban Listeriose on my e-mail g.van.der.feltz@ziggo.nl

Thank you in advance!

Gustaaf van der Feltz ( g.van.der.feltz@ziggo.nl )