Hong Kong – Smoked Salmon Recall – Listeria monocytogenes

Food Alert – Smoked salmon manufactured by Polyfood Food

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Issue Date	2015-04-03
Source of Information	Centre for Food Safety (CFS)
Food Product	Smoked salmon
Name of Importer
Product name and Description	Product name: All smoked salmon produced by the manufacturer concerned, regardless of the brand, batch or packaging. Manufacturer: Polyfood Food Service Co Ltd
Reason For Issuing Alert	–Upon receipt of a notification from the Macau authorities earlier that a batch of smoked salmon imported from Hong Kong was contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the CFS, for the sake of prudence, has immediately instructed the manufacturer concerned, Polyfood Food Service Co Ltd, to recall all affected batches of the product. The Centre has been proactively following up on the incident in the past few days and has taken food and environmental samples for testing. Notification received yesterday stated that Listeria monocytogenes was detected in a smoked salmon sample.