Monthly Archives: February 2016

FSAI

The implicated batch of Florentin Organic Kitchen Organic Falafel Nuggets Bio is being recalled from consumers due to the detection of Listeria monocytogenes. The batch was sold to a small number of stores in Ireland.  Shops which have sold this batch must display a point-of-sale notice advising customers not to consume the implicated batch.

Food Poisoning Bulletin

Marathon Ventures Inc. is recalling macadamia nuts that may contaminated with Salmonella. The recalled nut were sold under a variety of brand names including Market Pantry, Hyvee, Western Family, Shurline, Rear’s Gourmet, Cash Wa Distributing and NutPro. Consumers who have purchased these nuts should not eat them as Salmonella can cause serious illness or death. At the time of the recall, no illnesses had been reported in association with these nuts.

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The Packer

A Kansas sprouts grower-shipper has issued a voluntary recall of some of its alfalfa sprouts after the product was possibly linked to a salmonella outbreak in Kansas and Oklahoma.

Five people in Kansas and three in Oklahoma became ill after eating sprouts between early December and late January from Sweetwater Farms, Inman, Kan., according to a Kansas Department of Health and Environment news release.

CPH Post Online

You might want to rethink that chicken dinner this week and opt for something else instead – Metroxpress reports that Danish food brand Løgismose will be pulling a batch of chicken infected with a disease-causing bacteria known as Campylobacter off grocery shelves.

Food safety News

Current guidelines for the minimum distance between cattle feed lots and fresh produce growing fields are likely inadequate to ensure leafy greens are not contaminated with E. coli from dust and manure.

“Additional research is needed to determine safe set-back distances between cattle feedlots and crop production that will reduce fresh produce contamination,” according to scientists who conducted a two-year study.

Food safety guidelines currently call for a minimum distance of 120 meters, about 394 feet, but the researchers found E. coli contamination on leafy greens growing 180 meters (590 feet) away from a cattle feed lot.

Food Safety News

Captain Cook, HI — The Big Island features five volcanoes, black sand beaches and eight different climate zones. And, it produces world-famous Kona coffee and macadamia nuts.

“Mac” nuts, as they’re called here, are actually native to Australia. They were introduced to Hawaii in the late 1880s and gradually became an important export crop by the 1950s. The trees are evergreens, which can reach 30-40 feet in height.

The nuts are enclosed in a husk that splits open when mature, and they are typically manually harvested from the ground, and sometimes the tree. They are dried, husked, shelled and roasted, although some are dehydrated and sold as “raw.”

Hawaii annually produces about 50 million pounds of macadamia nuts, with nearly all of those coming from the Big Island, according to John Cross, president of the 53-member Hawaii Macadamia Nut Association. In addition to his association work, Cross helps to manage 1,200 acres of macadamia trees for the Hilo-based Edmund C. Olson Trust.

Food Poisoning Bulletin

The FDA’s Weekly Enforcement report for February 17, 2016 includes a recall of Watcharee’s Thai sauces  that are being recalled for mold. These sauces may not meet quality standards due to the presence of mold, according to the report. The products are made by Thai Culinary Arts Studio LLC of Maine.

The recalled products are Watcharee’s thai peanut sauce in an 11.75 ounce glass jar. The UPC number is 094368999977 and the best by dates are 9/16/2017 and 10/28/2017. Also recalled is Watcharee’s Thai Massaman curry sauce in an 11.5 ounce glass jar. The UPC number for that product is 094368999984 and the best by dates are 9/15/2017 and 10/28/2017. Finally, Watcharee’s Thai Green Curry Sauce in 11.5 ounce glass jars is recalled. The UPC number for that product is 094368999991 and the best by dates are 9/15/2017, 9/16/2017, and 10/20/2017. They were distributed in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

FSA

Who will this consultation be of most interest to? This consultation will be of most interest to the food industry, hospitality industry, consumer bodies, enforcement bodies, health care practioners and government departments/agencies with an interest in microbiological risk from shell eggs and their products. What is the subject of this consultation? The Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) report that provides an update on the microbiological risk from shell eggs and their products. What is the purpose of this consultation? The ACMSF is inviting stakeholders views on its draft report. In particular, the Committee would welcome comments on the report’s conclusions and recommendations. Comments specifically on risk management are not within the remit of the Committee and are therefore not within the scope of this consultation. In producing its report, the ACMSF’s Ad Hoc Group on Eggs assessed the current level of microbiological risk to consumers (including vulnerable groups) from raw or lightly cooked shell eggs and their products and also assessed how the risk with respect to salmonella has changed since the last ACMSF report on this subject which was published in 2001.

Leicester Mercury

A teenager who contracted a potentially fatal strain of E-Coli during a First Choice holiday from hell in Turkey has been awarded a bumper six-figure payout.

Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Leicester-teenager-contracted-E-Coli-Turkish/story-28761591-detail/story.html#ixzz40uS8bspt
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