Spain – Presence of Listeria monocytogenes in Goat Cheese from the Netherlands

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The Public Health Agency of Catalonia has been informed by the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) through the Coordinated System for Rapid Information Exchange (SCIRI) of the presence of the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes in the Rulo de Cabra Cheese product , made in the Netherlands and marketed from Germany.

The German company JERMI, which packages and markets the product, has detected Listeria monocytogenes in the course of its self-tests in the goat cheese cheese product, which has been sold exclusively to Lidl.

Of all the batches and expiration dates of the affected product, only lot 412 with an expiration date of 11/06/2020 has been distributed in Lidl establishments in Spain. The affected product is being withdrawn from the marketing market.

With the information available , no case associated with this alert has been confirmed in Spain.

It is recommended that people who have products affected by this alert at home, refrain from consuming them and return them to the point of purchase.

You can consult the information that the Lidl company has passed on to consumers and in which it requests the return of the product “Jermi goat cheese roll”, at the following link:

https://www.lidl.es/es/devolucion-del-pr

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