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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Food Safety Recall:Nestlé USA recalls ready-to-bake refrigerated NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® STUFFED Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough with Fudge Filling (8 oz; Produced between June and September 2022) due to potential foreign matter contamination (white plastic pieces). The recalled products were distributed in the continental United States and Puerto Rico.
Food Safety Recall: AdvancePierre Foods Inc. recalls GOLD LABEL AdvancePierre Our Deluxe Cubed Pork Loin Streak Fritters (10.14-lbs. bulk cases containing 27 pieces; Lot code 1672AFE06) due to possible foreign matter contamination (hard pieces of plastic).
Europe
Allergy Alert (Belgium): La chocolaterie Ickx NV recalls Pralibel brand Icônes Cubes (9 pièces) – boîte cadeau / gift box (240g; Lot #2022093870; Best before 31/03/2023) due to undeclared milk, soy, egg, gluten and nuts.
Food Safety Recall (Belgium): AFSCA recalls Fromage Morbier au lait cru / raw milk cheese (±200g; Article numbers 170027, 177062 & 169084; Best before dates 12/10/2022 and 26/10/2022, from 13/102022 to 27/10/2022, inclusive and from 11/10/2022 to 27/10/2022, inclusive, respectively) due to Salmonella contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France):BCT 500recalls Pâté en croûte cocktail olive noire / Black olive cocktail pâté in pastry shell (400g; Lot 2222713; Use by 02/11/2022) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France):BCT 500 recalls PÂTÉ EN CROÛTE COCKTAIL NATURE PISTACHÉ / Pistachio cocktail pâté in pastry shell (400g; 2222724; Use by 02/11/2022) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France):ETABLISSEMENTS MASSARDIER recalls several varieties of SALAISONS MASSARDIER brand tête roulée due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Please refer to the recall notice for a complete list of affected products.
Food Safety Recall (France):ACHATS MARCHANDISES CASINOrecalls Monoprix brand Pâté en croûte aux pistaches /Pistachio pâté in pastry shell (2 slices – 200g; Lot 227201 / 227301; Use by dates between 02/11/2022 and 03/11/2022) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France):ACHATS MARCHANDISES CASINO recalls Casino brand Pâté en croûte aux pistaches et nature / Plain and pistachio pâte in pastry shell (200g & 550g; Lots 227201 / 227301 & 227201 / 227701; Use by dates between 02/11/2022 and 03/11/2022 and between 03/11/2022 and 08/11/2022, respectively) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France):ROLAND MONTERRAT recalls Pâté en croûte Poulet citron / Chicken and lemon pâté in pastry shell (Lot 227201; Use by 28/10/2022) due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France): ROLAND MONTERRAT recalls Pâté en croûte (2 tranches, diverses variétés) / Pâté in pastry shell, two slices of different varieties (190g; Use by 02/11/2022 et le 08/11/ 2022) due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Pleaase see recall notice for a complete list of affected products.
Food Safety Recall (France):ODYSSEE INTERMARCHE recalls CARRETERA brand EMINCE DE DINDE MARINADE THAI / Ground turkey with Thai marinade (~2 kg; Lot 3092627; Use by 01/10/ 2022) due to Salmonella contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France):ROLAND MONTERRAT recalls Maison Monterrat brand Pâtés en croûte / Pâtés in pastry shell (440g, 190g & 2x90g; Use by dates between 29/10/2022 and 08/11/2022) due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France):ROLAND MONTERRAT recalls Pâté en croûte vendu prétranché pour les collectivités / Pâté in pastry shell sold presliced (various varieties and lot codes; Use by dates between 06/11/2022 and 11/11/2022) due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France): COOPERATIVE U ENSEIGNE U recalls SALAISONS MASSARDIER brand 1/2 tête roulée pistachée / 1/2 pork head meat roll with pistachio (~2.8 kg; Lot 22620004; Use by 19/10/2022) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (Spain): Manufacturerexpands earlier recall for liver sausage and other sausage products due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Please refer to the recall notice for a complete list of affected products.
Australia and New Zealand
Food Safety Recall (New Zealand): Pak’nSave Hornby recalls made in-store Plain Bread Rolls (6 Pack & 18 Pack; Best before 13.10.22) due to possible foreign matter contamination (hard clear glass/plastic).
The USDA is beginning to consider whether or not to consider if Salmonella in poultry should be considered a problem.
The department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced that it is “considering a regulatory framework” for a new strategy that would allow the agency to consider controlling Salmonella in poultry products. The goal, if things move forward, is to reduce human illnesses.
Every year at least 135,000 people are sickened by Salmonella, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those illnesses, one-fourth are caused by the pathogen in chicken.
The potential framework described in the FSIS announcement has three prongs and an open ended time schedule.
Some who have been fighting for Salmonella to be declared an adulterant in poultry — making it illegal to sell chicken contaminated with it knowingly or unknowingly — are feeling lukewarm about the potential framework.
Bill Marler, a Seattle food safety attorney who three years ago filed a petition on behalf of several individuals and three consumer groups seeking to have Salmonella declared an adulterant, said the FSIS announcement reminded him of a 19970s TV commercial: “Where’s the beef?”
He said the proposal for a framework to consider studying the situation “dances around” the problem. He is concerned that the proposed framework is not bold enough. He is, however, glad to see some movement, any movement.
“This is the first public-facing document I’ve seen in more than 30 years that FSIS has put out there showing that they understand there is a problem,” Marler said.
Consumer Reports, one of the groups named in the petition filed by Marler, is also pleased at this first step by FSIS. The group said the announcement “is an encouraging sign that the agency is stepping up its efforts to protect the public.
“Salmonella contamination is all too common in poultry and poses a potentially deadly risk to consumers,” said Brian Ronholm, director of food policy at Consumer Reports. “It’s critical for the USDA to work expeditiously to adopt aggressive goals to sharply reduce Salmonella contamination and focus its efforts on reducing the strains that pose the biggest threat to human health.”
The citizen’s petition asked FSIS to declare 32 strains of Salmonella to be considered an adulterant. The FSIS is considering whether to review three of those strains.
Salmonella contamination is widespread in chicken in part because of the often crowded and filthy conditions in which they are raised, according to Consumer Reports. A recent CR investigation, for example, found almost one-third of ground chicken samples tested contained Salmonella.
Consumer reports said the numbers are alarming and that the framework needs to go further.
“While the USDA currently requires producers to test poultry for Salmonella, a processing facility is allowed to have the bacteria in up to 9.8 percent of all whole birds it tests, 15.4 percent of all parts, and 25 percent of ground chicken. Producers that exceed these amounts are given what amounts to a warning, but not prevented from selling the meat,” according to the Consumer Reports statement.
By the FSIS’s own admission the number of illnesses caused by Salmonella in poultry has remained stagnant for decades. This is in the context that industry has reduced the amount of Salmonella found in poultry by 50 percent. Marler explained that anomaly in terms of a swimming pool.
“If you have a pool and you drain out half of the water you still have half a pool of water,” he said.
The water in the pool represents the amount of Salmonella in the chicken. There’s just too much of it left, even with the 50 percent of it gone, that makes people sick. That shows how much Salmonella is in chicken — too big of a bacterial load, as scientists say.
With the proposed FSIS framework the number of human illnesses caused by Salmonella in poultry would be decreased by 25 percent, meaning three out of four people who are sickened would still get sick. That is not acceptable in Marler’s opinion.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is pleased to see the attention to Salmonella in poultry but is cautiously optimistic.
“While the proposed framework represents a welcome shift in thinking by the agency, many important details are yet to be worked out, and the need for these changes is urgent,” CSPI said in a statement this morning.
“USDA’s announcement of this framework represents a landmark acknowledgment from an agency that has long refused to recognize that Salmonella in raw poultry poses unacceptable risks. Center for Science in the Public Interest first petitioned the USDA to ban certain strains of antibiotic-resistant Salmonellain 2011, and again in 2014, but was denied twice by the agency.”
STOP Foodborne Illness is also happy to see some action out of FSIS on the decade-old problem of Salmonella in chicken.
“Stop Foodborne Illness (STOP) applauds FSIS for taking the first step of developing meaningful, comprehensive controls for Salmonella in poultry that includes an enforceable final product standard. The proposed framework reflects many issues raised by STOP and its coalition partners in our joint petition filed in January 2021,” said Mitzi D. Baum, M.Sc. and CEO of STOP.
One key point in the proposed framework for the possible FSIS strategy for dealing with Salmonella in poultry is to have the industry work out the problem. The framework calls for birds to come into “the establishments” cleaner. That means that people who raise chickens would have to send healthy birds to slaughterhouses and processing plants.
By putting pressure on “the establishments” to accept cleaner birds the government believes the slaughterhouses and processors would put pressure on their suppliers, thus resolving the problem.
Marler says the most significant point in the proposed framework is that it recognizes that dealing with Salmonella pre-harvest is necessary. Right now there is no industry incentive to fix the problem.
Consumer Reports agrees that testing so-called incoming birds is a crucial step.
“Under the proposal announced by the USDA, poultry producers would be required to test flocks for Salmonella before slaughter and provide documentation on Salmonella levels or serotypes to processing plants,” according to Consumer Reports’ statement. “The requirement is meant to incentivize plants to implement measures to reduce the Salmonella load in the final poultry product. USDA is also considering the adoption of a final product standard to ensure that poultry contaminated with Salmonella likely to make people sick is not allowed on the market.”
The framework itself
A key point from the FSIS announcement is that the agency will be seeking comment from stakeholders on all of the elements of the framework — both at a public meeting and in written comments submitted to the meeting docket in the Federal Register — before moving forward with any proposed changes to regulations or other actions.
After analyzing recent data on human illness from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FSIS sampling results from chicken and turkey products, the agency has decided to focus at this time on three serotypes: Enteritidis, Typhimurium, and Infantis, which together cause 33 percent of all Salmonella illnesses. The public petition requested that 32 types be considered adulterants.
Excerpts from the three components of the framework
Component 1:Requiring incoming flocks be tested for Salmonella before entering an establishment
FSIS is considering requiring establishments to characterize Salmonella as a hazard reasonably likely to occur at receiving and that incoming flocks be tested for Salmonella before entering an establishment.
Under this approach, the flock would have to meet a predetermined target for Salmonella at receiving, which may be industry-wide or establishment-specific, and the establishment must demonstrate that its subsequent process will be effective in reducing Salmonella so that the product will meet the final product standard.
Salmonella enters an establishment in and on the birds. The goal of this component is to incentivize the use of pre-harvest interventions that reduce the level of incoming Salmonella contamination or mitigate the risk of a particular serotype entering the establishment.
Under this approach, FSIS does not intend to require the industry to adopt any specific pre-harvest interventions but would allow flexibility for the industry to adopt the practices that are most effective at controlling Salmonella in each particular operation. Establishments would be encouraged to work with their suppliers and contractors to ensure they are implementing best practices in reducing the Salmonella hazard in breeding facilities, hatcheries, grow-out and throughout transport.
Component 2: Enhanced Establishment Process Control Monitoring and FSIS Verification
To ensure that poultry slaughter establishments are effectively controlling Salmonella throughout their operations, FSIS may propose to modify its current regulations to prescribe enhanced establishment monitoring procedures, including revised locations for multipoint sampling and the use of a statistical approach to process control.
The second component of this proposed framework builds on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP), FSIS’ prevention-based approach to food safety. To ensure pathogen control throughout slaughter and processing operations, FSIS may modify the existing requirements for indicator organism testing for process control and establish additional parameters to better define the required analysis of the data. As part of the proposal, establishments may be required to test for indicator organisms (e.g., aerobic plate count [APC], Enterobacteriaceae).
Component 3:Enforceable Final Product Standard
FSIS is assessing whether certain levels or types of Salmonella in raw poultry products present an elevated risk of causing human illness such that they should be considered adulterants. As a result, the agency is considering implementing a final product standard or standards to ensure that product contaminated with Salmonella that is likely to make people sick is not sold to consumers.
To protect public health, FSIS regulations should prevent products with high levels of contamination and/or specific serotypes from entering commerce. This goal would be accomplished by declaring Salmonella an adulterant. In doing so, FSIS would rely on criteria that were applied to STECs. These criteria are: consideration of serotypes associated with human illness; low infectious dose; severity of human illnesses; and typical consumer cooking practices.
(Editor’s note) The reference to STECs, or Sign toxin-producing E. coli, relates to how the beef industry was forced to clean up its meat when E. Coli was declared an adulterant.
Consistent with its approach to determining the status of certain STECs as adulterants in specific raw beef products, FSIS is considering whether there are specific Salmonella and raw poultry product pairs that have characteristics that distinguish them from other raw poultry products contaminated with Salmonella, such that Salmonella at certain levels and/or types of Salmonella should be considered as an adulterant when present in that specific raw poultry product.
For example, FSIS will soon be releasing a proposal that Salmonella meets the criteria to be considered an adulterant in not-ready-to-eat (NRTE) breaded and stuffed raw chicken products, an action that will allow the Agency to better protect public health.
At the same time, FSIS is exploring if a single product standard for Salmonella in all raw poultry products may be appropriate. From a consumer’s perspective, exposure to a quantity and/or serotype of Salmonella likely to make them sick is a key risk factor for the illness that may be consistent across product types.
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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Public Health Alert: USDA/FSIS issues consumer alert for FRANK’S BUTCHER SHOP GROUND BEEF (1-lb. plastic vacuum-packed packages; Packed on dates 10-07-2022 and 10-09-2022) due to possible E. coli O103 contamination. The products are no longer available for purchase, but consumers may still have the product stored in their freezer.
Infant Formula Safety Recall:Abbott recalls Ready-to-Feed liquid products for infants and children, including the brands Similac® Pro-Total ComfortTM, Similac® 360 Total Care®, Similac 360 Total Care Sensitive, Similac® Special Care® 24, Similac Stage 1, Similac® NeoSure®, Similac Water (Sterilized) and Pedialyte Electrolyte Solution (2 fl oz/59 ml bottles; multiple lot codes) because a small percentage of bottles (less than 1%) in the recalled lots have bottle caps that may not have sealed completely, which could result in spoilage. The recalled products were manufactured in Columbus, Ohio and were distributed primarily to hospitals and to some doctors’ offices, distributors and retailers in the U.S., including Puerto Rico; one lot of products was sent to Barbados, Bermuda, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Croix and St. Thomas; and two lots were sent to Canada, Curacao, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago. Please refer to the Abbott recall website for additional information about the affected products.
Food Safety Recall: Nestlé USA recalls NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® STUFFED Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough with Fudge Filling products (8 oz; produced between June and September 2022) due to potential foreign matter contamination (white plastic pieces). The recalled products were distributed in the continental United States and Puerto Rico.
Canada
Infant Formula Safety Recall:Abbott recalls Ready-to-Feed liquid products for infants and children, including the brands Similac® Pro-Total ComfortTM, Similac® 360 Total Care®, Similac 360 Total Care Sensitive, Similac® Special Care® 24, Similac Stage 1, Similac® NeoSure®, Similac Water (Sterilized) and Pedialyte Electrolyte Solution (2 fl oz/59 ml bottles; multiple lot codes) because a small percentage of bottles (less than 1%) in the recalled lots have bottle caps that may not have sealed completely, which could result in spoilage. The recalled products were manufactured in Columbus, Ohio and were distributed primarily to hospitals and to some doctors’ offices, distributors and retailers in the U.S., including Puerto Rico; one lot of products was sent to Barbados, Bermuda, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Croix and St. Thomas; and two lots were sent to Canada, Curacao, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago. Please refer to the Abbott recall website for additional information about the affected products.
Food Safety Recall: Abbott recalls Abbott brand Similac Sterilized Water (48 x 59 ml; Lot 39398N200; Expiry 01-OCT-2023) due to spoilage. The recalled product was sold nationally.
Food Safety Recall: Aristo Cuisine recalls multiple Circle K / Couche Tard brand sandwiches (Best before 22-OC-12, 22-OC-13 & 22-OC-14) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Please refer to the recall notice for a complete list of affected products, which were sold in Quebec and may have been distributed in other provinces and territories.
Europe
OUTBREAK INVESTIGATION UPDATE (Sweden): The Swedish Food Agency and the Public Health Agency are continuing to investigate an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium that has now sickened 54 people from 20 different regions in the country since September 17, 2022. The source of this outbreak has not yet been identified, but is suspected to be a food with wide distribution in Sweden.
Allergy Alert (Belgium): Albert Heijnrecalls AH Koolhydraat verlaagd bollen volkoren / Low-carb whole wheat buns (4 x 60g; Best before 14/10/2022) due to undeclared sesame.
Allergy Alert (Denmark): Candynavia A/S recalls Slikposer – SSC Børnepose / Candy bags – SSC Children’s bag (Best before 31.07.2023) due to undeclared milk.
Allergy Alert (Ireland): FSAI alerts consumers to presence of undeclared sesame seeds in Heera Rewdi (Sugar & Sesame Sweet) (300g; Batch 2G1201221; Best before May 2024)
Allergy Alert (Netherlands): Albert Heijnrecalls AH Koolhydraat verlaagd bollen volkoren / Low-carb whole wheat buns (4 x 60g; Best before 14/10/2022) due to undeclared sesame.
Allergy Alert (Spain): PepsiCo España recalls Lay’s Horno al punto de Sal / Lay’s Oven Baked crisps, salted (150g; Batches BV 51501 256, BV 51504 256 and BV 51501 257; Best before 02/04/2023; Product of Belgium) due to undeclared milk, soy and wheat.
Food Safety Recall (Belgium):Borges Agricultural & Industrial Nuts S.A. recalls Sol&Mar brand Almendras fritas con miel y sal – AMANDES frites au miel et au sel / Fried almonds with honey and salt (150g; Lots 1114186, 1114543 & 1114673; Use by 05/04/2023, 19/05/2023 & 01/06/2023, respectively) due to possible foreign matter contamination (metal particles).
Food Safety Recall (Belgium): Delhaizerecalls Delhaize brand amandes décortiquées Bio / Organic shelled almonds (250g; Best before 17/02/2023) due to excessive hydrocyanic acid.
Food Safety Recall (Denmark): REMA Distribution A/S recalls several batches of kidney beans in brine, kidney beans in chilli sauce, and white beans in tomato sauce, as small perforations in the cans may lead to microbial contamination, resulting in fermentation. Please refer to the recall notice for a complete list of affected products.
Food Safety Recall (Finland): Lidl Suomi recalls Sol & Mar paahdetut ja hunajalla ja suolalla kuorrutetut mantelit/ Sol & Mar almonds roasted and glazed with honey and salt (150g; Best before 2.5.2023 and 3.5.2023) due to possible foreign matter contamination (metal).
Food Safety Recall (France): ETABLISSEMENTS MASSARDIER SALAISONS MASSARDIER recalls Salaisons Massardier brand tête roulée pistachée / Rolled pork with pistachios (Various package formats; Lots 22620004, 2262005, 22620024, 22620023; Use by 19/10/2022) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France):ROLAND MONTERRAT recalls various varieties of Pâtés en croûte / Pàtés in pastry crust (Sold by the slice; Use by dates between 29/10/2022 and 12/11/2022) due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Please refer to the recall notice for a complete list of affected products.
Food Safety Recall (France):AUCHAN RETAIL SERVICES recalls AUCHAN PATE EN CROUTE RICHELIEU / Pàté in pastry crust (2 slices (190g); Lots 227201, 227301, 227701 & 227801; Use by 03/11/2022, 04/11/2022, 08/11/2022 & 09/11/2022, respectively) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France): ROUFFIAC DISTRIBUTION LECLERC recalls Jambon d’AUCH AC SUPERIEUR cuit / Superior cooked ham (Sold by the slice from 09/09/2022 to 23/09/2022) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France): LE FROMAGER DES HALLES recalls LA PERELLE brand Petit Pont l’eveque cheese (240g; Lot 120922LI8; Use by 26/11/2022) due to E. coli contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France): MARIUS BERNARD recalls Les pêcheurs des Calanques brand Aïoli BIO / Organic Aïoli (90g; Lot 1209F1189; Best before 12/09/2024) due to suspected microbial growth.
Food Safety Recall (France):ETABLISSEMENTS FASSIER SA recalls FASSIER brand JAMBONNEAU SUPERIEUR CUIT AU BOUILLON / Superior ham cooked in broth (Lot 2490503000092; Use by 11/10/2022) due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France): SCAMARK E.LECLERC recalls COTE TABLE brand SPAGHETTI BOLOGNAISE (415g can; Lot LU097; Best before 30/04/2026) due to possible can perforations that could result in microbial contamination.
Food Safety Recall (France): AUCHAN RETAIL SERVICES recalls AUCHAN brand PERSIL FLOCONS / Parsley flakes (10g; Lot LF2243CA; Best before 31/10/2024) due to possible foreign matter contamination (glass particles).
Food Safety Recall (Germany): Borges Agricultural & Industrial Nuts, S.A. recalls Sol&Mar Frittierte Mandelhälften mit Zucker, Honig und Salz / Fried almonds with sugar, honey and salt (150g; Lot 1114724; Best before 20.06.2023) due to possible foreign matter contamination (metal).
Food Safety Recall (Italy): Gelmini Carlo SRL recalls Pascoli Italiani brand Gorgonzola Dolce DOP / Sweet gorgonzola cheese (300g; Lot 21846252; Best before 08.11.2022) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (Italy): Alicos SRLrecalls Alicos brand Pesto al finocchietto selvatico / Wild fennel pesto (190g; Lot 15ST22; Use by 15 September 2024) due to risk of Clostridium botulinum contamination.
Food Safety Recall (Italy): SUPERMERCATI IPERAL S.p.A recalls PORCHETTA D’ARICCIA IGP / Pork roast (90g; Lots V232134, V232703, V233395, V234224, V234230, V235970 & V236047; Use by 30/10/2022) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (Luxembourg): Delhaizerecalls Delhaize brand amandes décortiquées Bio / Organic shelled almonds (250g; Best before 17/02/2023) due to excessive hydrocyanic acid.
Food Safety Recall (Luxembourg): Salaisons MEYER recalls Meyer brand Pâté au poivre / Pepper pâté (250g; Lot 80-20220913-25; All Use by dates from 15/10/2022 to 22/10/2022) and Meyer brand Pâté au poivre en bloc / Pepper pâté block (Variable weights; Lot 80-20220913-22; All Use by dates from 15/10/2022 to 22/10/2022) due to foreign matter contamination (pieces of rigid black plastic).
Food Safety Recall (Luxembourg):AUCHAN recalls AUCHAN PATE EN CROUTE RICHELIEU / Pàté in pastry crust (2 slices (190g); Lots 227201, 227301, 227701 & 227801; Use by 03/11/2022, 04/11/2022, 08/11/2022 & 09/11/2022, respectively) due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Food Safety Recall (Luxembourg): Food safety authority recalls Boni brand Purée de pommes de terre surgelée / Frozen potato purée (1 kg; Lot BL221757; Best before 23/06/2024) and Boni brand Purée de pommes de terre aux épinards surgelée / Potato and spinach purée, frozen (1 kg; Lot L222107; Best before 28/07/2024) due to foreign matter contamination (glass).
Food Safety Recall (Luxembourg): Borges Agricultural & Industrial Nuts, S.A. recalls Sol & MarbrandAmandes au sucre, miel et sel/ Almonds with sugar, honey and salt (150g; Lots 1114186, 1114543 & 1114673; Best before 05/04/2023, 19/05/2023 & 01/06/2023, respectively) due to possible foreign matter contamination (metal).
Food Safety Recall (Netherlands): Layenberger Nutrition Group GmbH recalls multiple varieties of Layenberger Fit+Feelgood Slim Shakes (396g; multiple lot codes and expiration dates) due to possible foreign matter contamination (metal particles).
Food Safety Recall (Netherlands): Hoogvliet recalls Casa del Sud ravioli Bolognese (400g can; Expiration date 30-09-2026) due to possible damaged containers that may develop microbial spoilage.
Food Safety Recall (Netherlands): Lidlrecalls Kania erwtensoep / Pea soup (800ml; Expiration date 09-2025) due to possible foreign matter contamination (stones).
Food Safety Recall (Netherlands): Jumbo recalls Ferrero Kinder Schokobons / Chocolate candies (300g; Best before 05-10-2022) due to possible Salmonella contamination. This product was recalled by Ferrero in April; however some of the product was shipped by Jumbo to a limited number of stores in error.
Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands
Allergy Alert (Israel): Stone Mill Industries Ltd recalls multiple snack products due to undeclared milk. Please refer to the recall notice for a complete list of affected products.
Food Safety Recall (Singapore): Importersrecall Fresh shell eggs (Farm code CEJ027; All batches; Product of Malaysia) due to Salmonella Enteritidis contamination. The farm is also suspended and will not be allowed to export their eggs to Singapore until the contamination problem has been rectified.
Australia and New Zealand
Food Safety Recall (Australia): Murray River Smokehouse recalls Murray River Smokehouse salami mild (180g; Best before 25FEB2023) and Murray River Smokehouse salami pepper (180g; Best before 06MAR2023) due to Salmonella contamination.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Infant Formula Safety Recall:Abbott recalls Ready-to-Feed liquid products for infants and children, including the brands Similac® Pro-Total ComfortTM, Similac® 360 Total Care®, Similac 360 Total Care Sensitive, Similac® Special Care® 24, Similac Stage 1, Similac® NeoSure®, Similac Water (Sterilized) and Pedialyte Electrolyte Solution (2 fl oz/59 ml bottles; multiple lot codes) because a small percentage of bottles (less than 1%) in the recalled lots have bottle caps that may not have sealed completely, which could result in spoilage. The recalled products were manufactured in Columbus, Ohio and were distributed primarily to hospitals and to some doctors’ offices, distributors and retailers in the U.S., including Puerto Rico; one lot of products was sent to Barbados, Bermuda, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Croix and St. Thomas; and two lots were sent to Canada, Curacao, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago. Please refer to the Abbott recall website for additional information about the affected products.
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