Category: Salmonella

Recalls and Alerts: July 5, 2011

Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

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Canada

  • Allergy Alert: Sun Sweet Catering recalls The Greek Chef Garlic Spread (12 oz & 32 oz) and The Greek Chef Hot & Spicy Garlic Spread (12 oz & 32 oz), because the products contain undeclared milk. The recalled garlic spreads were distributed in Ontario.
  • Allergy Alert: Quality Natural Foods Ltd. recalls Quality Super Tasty Petha Angoori – Pumpkin in Sugar Syrup (1 kg & 3.8 kg; all codes), due to the presence of undeclared sulphites. The recalled product was distributed in Ontario and British Columbia.
  • Health Product Alert: Health Canada advises the public that the unauthorized health product “Man Up Now” has been removed from sale at O! Behave retail stores in Delta and Surrey, BC after Health Canada’s testing identified undeclared sildenafil (a prescription medication) in the product.

Europe

Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands

  • Food Safety Recall (Hong Kong and Macao): EDO Trading Co recalls EDO Pack Pineapple Pie (Manufactured in Taiwan; Expiry April 6, 2012) after the plasticiser DEHP is detected in a sample of the product.
  • Outbreak Alert Update (Hong Kong): The Centre for Health Protection has received reports of an additional 24 cases of suspected food poisoning among patrons of a restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui, bringing to 43 the total number of cases reported so far.
  • Food Safety Alert (Taiwan): Health inspectors have detected traces of the banned drugs malachite green and leuco-malachite green in four (all of them threadfin) out of 37 samples of farmed fish sold in local markets.
  • Food Safety Notification Update (EU #2011.0805): Shigatoxin-producing E. coli in frozen minced beef from France, with raw material from Germany; distributed to Belgium, Cyprus, France, Gabon, Hungary, Italy and the Netherlands. See also SEB/CERF recall notice, above.

Some supermarket chains post recall notices on their web sites for the convenience of customers. To see whether a recalled food was carried by your favorite supermarket, follow the live link to the supermarket’s recall web site.

Recalls and Alerts: July 3, 2011

Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

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United States

Canada

  • Beach Closure (Ontario): Lakeside Beach (Kingsville) and Seacliff Beach (Leamington) are closed to swimming due to elevated levels of E. coli int he water. Swimming is also not recommended at Sandpoint Beach (Windsor) or West Belle River Beach (Lakeshore).

Europe

Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands

  • Food Safety Seizure and Recall (Vietnam): The Dat Nam Co. Ltd., producer of Aquasun Mineral Water was suspended from operation after inspectors from the municipal Department of Health found Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the water. More than 1,000 bottles of water have been seized, and a recall has been ordered. More than 50 of the 500 bottled water enterprises inspected by the department produced bottled water contaminated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Dat Nam and the Ke Ba Company were reported to be repeat offenders.
  • Outbreak Alert (India): A cholera outbreak in the Wayanad district has resulted in the hospitalization of as many as 114 people. Five people are reported in critical condition.
  • Outbreak Alert (India): Forty-six cases of diarrhea have been reported in Ropar in the past week. Five people have been hospitalized, including two foreigners.
  • Outbreak Alert (Spain): Eighty-seven residents of two juvenile facilities have developed possible food poisoning, 71 of them in La Esperanza and 16 in Punta Blanca.
  • Outbreak Alert (India): The first cholera case of the monsoon season has been reported in Chandigarh. The patient was admitted to hospital for treatment, but has been discharged.
  • Outbreak Alert (Congo): An outbreak of cholera in regions fed by the Congo River has claimed 153 lives since March. In all, 2,787 cases have been reported.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.0881): Salmonella Derby inmussels from Italy; distributed to Italy and Hong Kong.

Australia and New Zealand

  • Synthetic Cannabis Mandated Recall (New Zealand): Ministry of Health warns retailers to remove the herbal smoking product Juicy Puff Super Strength from sale, because it contains the prescription medicine phenazepam, which is not approved for sale in New Zealand.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.0877): Fumosins in maize and buckwheat flour from Italy; distributed to Australia, Italy and the USA.

Some supermarket chains post recall notices on their web sites for the convenience of customers. To see whether a recalled food was carried by your favorite supermarket, follow the live link to the supermarket’s recall web site.

Recalls and Alerts: July 1, 2011

Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

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United States

  • Food Safety Recall/Outbreak Alert: Evergreen Fresh Sprouts, LLC (Moyie Springs, ID) recalls Evergreen Produce Alfalfa Sprouts (4-oz, 16-oz, and 5-lb bag; Expiration Dates from 06 22 through 07 14) and Evergreen Produce Spicy Sprouts (4-oz, 16-oz and 5-lb bag; Expiration Dates from 06 22 through 07 14), because the sprouts may be contaminated with Salmonella. The recalled sprouts have been linked epidemiologically to a 5-state outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis that has sickened at least 21 people. Lab tests of the implicated sprouts are pending.
  • Outbreak Alert: Marler Blog reports an outbreak of E. coli O25 infections that has sickened at least 5 kitchen workers at Camp Lutherhaven in Idaho.

Canada

  • Allergy Alert: Metro Ontario Inc. recalls Irresistibles brand Cookie Dough & Brownies Ice Cream (Codes AGRT 1759 – BNQ1529 xx.xx 053 11, and AGRT 1759 – BNQ1529 xx.xx 049 11, where xx.xx represents the time stamps in manufacturing), because the product contains undeclared eggs. The recalled Ice Cream was distributed in Québec and Ontario.

Europe

  • Allergy Alert (UK): Asda withdraws Asda 6 Croissants (Best before 19 July 2011), because a packaging error has resulted in the packs containing Asda Chocolatines that contain soy.
  • Food Safety Recall (Italy): Carrefour recalls certain batches of Ditta Carrefour Prosciutto (ham) after the manufacturer reported Listeria monocytogenes in excess of the levels permitted by law. The recalled ham was sold in Carrefour and other supermarkets and grocery stores. Specific lot numbers and expiration dates were not stated.

Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands

  • Outbreak Alert (Taiwan ex Indonesia): Taiwan CDC reports that two female travelers returning from Bali, Indonesia have been confirmed to be suffering from shigellosis. Ninety-nine cases of shigellosis have been confirmed in Taiwan so far this year; 49 of the cases were imported – 31 from Indonesia, 6 from the Philippines, 3 from Vietnam and 3 from Cambodia.

Some supermarket chains post recall notices on their web sites for the convenience of customers. To see whether a recalled food was carried by your favorite supermarket, follow the live link to the supermarket’s recall web site.