Wednesday, March 23, 2005
These sandwiches were distributed in select convenience stores and vending machines nationwide.
Eden Prairie, MN – infoZine – E.A. Sween Company announced that it is taking extraordinary measures to ensure the safety of its products by expanding last week’s voluntary recall of Deli Express Turkey & Cheese Sandwiches with the code number 450191 to include the code number 450464, as they have 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.
“Since the initial announcement 10 days ago E. A. Sween Company has been actively recovering all products impacted by this expanded voluntary recall, ” states E.A. Sween Company VP Marketing Tom Sween. “There have been no known illnesses related to this voluntary recall.”Continue Reading E.A. Sween Company Expands Voluntary Product Recall

By Judith Blake
Seattle Times staff reporter
March 23, 2005
The calls run the food-safety gamut:
ï A Seattle-area woman said she’d found walnuts in a packaged, pre-cut salad mix, though nuts were not listed in the ingredients. Her young son, who was severely allergic to walnuts, did not eat any of the nuts, but the woman worried that someone else might have an allergic reaction to the mislabeled product.
ï A man discovered mold on the meat-filled breakfast burrito he’d purchased at a convenience store.
ï A woman was dismayed to find larvae in an energy snack bar.
These are among the calls consumers have made to the new toll-free Food Safety Consumer Complaint Hotline (1-800-843-7890) launched in January by the Washington State Department of Agriculture.
Goal: to reduce the risk of food-borne illness by making it easier for consumers to lodge complaints and for officials to address them.Continue Reading New hotline handles food-safety complaints

Public release date: 21-Mar-2005
Contact: Nicole Kresge
nkresge@asbmb.org
301-634-7415
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Bethesda, MD — When the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes invades the body, it commandeers its host cell’s actin cytoskeleton to invade other cells. In a report published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a group of scientists provide insight into the molecular mechanisms behind this infection technique.
The research appears as the “Paper of the Week” in the March 25 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology journal.
Listeria causes a variety of diseases, the most severe being meningoencephalitis, an inflammation of the brain and the membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord. Infection begins when the bacterium binds to a receptor on the surface of a cell, causing the cell to ingest it. The bacterium multiplies inside the cell and then uses a cellular protein called ActA to stimulate the host cell’s actin to form filaments at one end of the bacterium.Continue Reading Scientists discover that host cell lipids facilitate bacterial movement

Sat, Mar. 19, 2005
BRIEFING: EDEN PRAIRIE
A Twin Cities company has expanded its recall of sandwiches sold to convenience stores and in vending machines because of possible listeria contamination.
E.A. Sween Co. earlier this month announced the recall of 12,600 Deli Express turkey and cheese sandwiches distributed nationwide in February and bearing the manufacture code 450191.
It has expanded that to include those with code number 450464 and nine additional types of sandwiches, it said in a statement Friday from its Eden Prairie headquarters.Continue Reading Company expands sandwich recall

March 18, 2005
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan deli is voluntarily recalling 17 more sandwiches after a line of its submarines was recalled because of possible listeria contamination.
Eastside Deli Supply Inc. of Lansing earlier this month recalled its 8-ounce beef-and-cheese subs because they could be contaminated with the food bacteria, which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, seniors and others with weakened immune systems.
The Michigan Department of Agriculture detected the problem during a routine food inspection.
On Friday, Eastside Deli said was recalling all of its “Eastside Deli,” “Fresh from the Deli” and “In Your Belly Deli” products as a precautionary measure. The recalled sandwiches have sell-by dates up to and including April 4 and were distributed to convenience stores in parts of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.Continue Reading Michigan deli recalls additional sandwiches sold in convenience stores

Recall Release CLASS I RECALL
FSIS-RC-010-2005 HEALTH RISK: HIGH
Congressional and Public Affairs
(202) 720-9113
Steven Cohen
WASHINGTON, March 16, 2005 – Day-Lee Foods, Inc., a Santa Fe Springs, Calif., firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 12,090 pounds of chicken dumplings that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today.
The products subject to recall are approximately 30-pound bags of “FULLY COOKED CHICKEN DUMPLINGS, FOR INSTITUTIONAL USE.” The products bear the code “560205” and the establishment code “EST. P-17309” inside the USDA mark of inspection.
The chicken dumplings were produced on December 22, 2004, and were distributed to a wholesaler in North Carolina.Continue Reading California Firm Recalls Chicken Dumplings for Possible Listeria Contamination

British Columbia: Abbott Listeria litigation
Marler Clark represented Molly Sandvick who was eight weeks pregnant when she and her fiancÈ took a float plane from Seattle to Victoria for a weekend getaway. The couple, who are getting married that weekend, stayed at a resort hotel where they ordered from room service a plate with about…

March 16, 2005
Hans Kissle tuna fish salad is available for purchase in the deli section of select supermarkets under the Hans Kissle, Shaw’s, Stop & Shop and Block & Barrel label.
Haverhill, MA – infoZine – Hans Kissle is conducting a voluntary recall of all prepared tuna fish salad sold in the retail deli section 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.
Hans Kissle tuna fish salad is available for purchase in the deli section of select supermarkets under the Hans Kissle, Shaw’s, Stop & Shop and Block & Barrel label. The product subject to recall is tuna salad in five lb. and 8 oz. containers with sell-by dates between March 15th and March 31th, 2005.Continue Reading Hans Kissle Recalls Tuna Salad Because of Possible Health Risk