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USA – Listeria Outbreak Linked to Ice Cream

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Listeria Outbreak Linked to Ice Cream

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Posted July 8, 2022

CDC is concerned that Big Olaf Creamery ice cream could still be in people’s homes or available for sale in stores. Big Olaf Creamery ice cream is sold in Florida in Big Olaf Creamery stores and stores with different company names.

Fast Facts
  • Illnesses: 23
  • Hospitalizations: 22
  • Deaths: 1
  • States: 10
  • Recall: No
  • Investigation status: Active
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What Everyone Should Do

Do not eat Big Olaf Creamery ice cream.

  • If you have any Big Olaf Creamery ice cream at home, throw it away.
  • If you are in Florida and don’t know if the ice cream being sold is Big Olaf Creamery brand, ask the store before you buy or eat it.

Clean any areas, containers, and serving utensils that may have touched the ice cream.

What Businesses Should Do

Do not serve or sell any Big Olaf Creamery ice cream products.

  • Clean and disinfect any areas and equipment that may have touched Big Olaf Creamery ice cream products, including ice cream scoops and other serving utensils.
What People at Higher Risk Should Do

Listeria is most likely to sicken pregnant people and their newborns, adults aged 65 or older, and people with weakened immune systems. Other people can be infected with Listeria, but they rarely become seriously ill.

Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of these Listeria symptoms:

  • Pregnant people typically experience only fever, fatigue, and muscle aches. However, Listeria infections during pregnancy can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery, or life-threatening infection of the newborn.
  • People who are not pregnant may experience headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, and convulsions, in addition to fever and muscle aches.

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USA – Domestically Acquired Cases of Cyclosporiasis — United States, May–June 2022

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LAST UPDATED JUNE 30, 2022 4:00 PM EDT

Cyclosporiasis illnesses are reported year-round in the United States. However, during the spring and summer months there is often an increase in cyclosporiasis acquired in the United States (i.e., “domestically acquired”). The exact timing and duration of these seasonal increases in domestically acquired cyclosporiasis can vary, but reports tend to increase starting in May. In previous years the reported number of cases peaked between June and July, although activity can last as late as September. The overall health impact (e.g., number of infections or hospitalizations) and the number of identified clusters of cases (i.e., cases that can be linked to a common exposure) also vary from season to season. Previous U.S. outbreaks of cyclosporiasis have been linked to various types of fresh produce, including basil, cilantro, mesclun lettuce, raspberries, and snow peas.

At a Glance
  • Illnesses: 61
  • Hospitalizations: 6
  • Deaths: 0
  • States reporting cases: 13

CDC, along with state and federal health and regulatory officials, monitor cases of cyclosporiasis in the United States in the spring and summer months to detect outbreaks linked to a common food source. However, many cases of cyclosporiasis cannot be directly linked to an outbreak, in part because of the lack of validated laboratory “fingerprinting” methods needed to link cases of Cyclospora infection. Officials use questionnaires to interview sick people to determine what they ate in the 14-day period before illness onset. If a commonality is found, CDC and partners work quickly to determine if a contaminated food product is still available in stores or in peoples’ homes and issue advisories.

Latest Information

  • This is the first monthly report on the number of domestically acquired cyclosporiasis illnesses with onset on or after May 1, 2022. Cases continue to be reported.
  • As of June 28, 2022, 61 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis in people who had no history of international travel during the 14-day period before illness onset have been reported to CDC by 13 states since May 1, 2022.
    • The median illness onset date is May 31, 2022 (range: May 3–June 20, 2022).
    • At least 6 people have been hospitalized; no deaths have been reported.

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Belgium – Additive in Barry Callebaut chocolate Salmonella case came from Hungary

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Food Safety News

The contaminated raw materials that forced Barry Callebaut to halt chocolate production in Belgium came from Hungary.

One batch of lecithin was unloaded at the Wieze factory on June 25. Barry Callebaut confirmed Salmonella Tennessee has been identified in the lecithin system of the factory and in samples of the delivered material. This batch came from a lecithin manufacturer in Hungary and was transported by a third party. The lecithin involved is only used at this site.

On June 27, Barry Callebaut detected a Salmonella positive on a production lot manufactured in Wieze and lecithin was identified as the source of the contamination on June 29.

Lecithin is used in all chocolate production lines in Wieze, so the company decided to stop the lines and to block all chocolate products manufactured from June 25 to 29, except for cocoa production which is not linked to the lecithin circuit.

On July 1, Barry Callebaut confirmed that, based on its internal investigation, no affected products had entered the retail food chain. No implicated chocolate has been exported by the company outside Europe.

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Luxembourg – E.coli – COCKLES (MOLLUSCS) ON SALE AT CORA FOETZ

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SAP

COCKLES (MOLLUSCS) ON SALE AT CORA FOETZ

Cora Group is recalling the following product:

 

Last name

Cockles (molluscs)

Mark

/

Unity

UNIT_PRODUCT

bar code

0218450000000

DLCs ​​/ DDMs

on sale at the Store between 06/07 and 08/07/2022

Batch

/

 

E. coli is a common bacterium in the digestive tract of humans and animals.It indicates faecal contamination that could be related to the presence of other faecal pathogens

Sale in Luxembourg by: Cora Foetz

A sale by other operators cannot be excluded.

Source of Information: Cora Group Recall Notification

Communicated by: Government Commission for Quality, Fraud and Food Safety .

Cora Foetz

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Germany – Wilhelm Brandenburg farmer ham, cooked ham, smoked – Listeria monocytogenes

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LMW

Alert type: Food
Date of first publication: 07/08/2022
Product name:

Wilhelm Brandenburg farmer ham, cooked ham, smoked

Product images:

Farmer-Schinken.jpg

Wilhelm Brandenburg GmbH & Co. oHG

Manufacturer (distributor):

Wilhelm Brandenburg GmbH & Co. oHG Waechtersbacher Strasse 101 60386 Frankfurt am Main

Reason for warning:

Detection of Listeria monocytogenes

Packaging Unit: 100 g
Durability: 07/31/2022
Lot identification: 0009532970
Further information:

Please refer to the attached press release.

Manufacturer’s website:

https://www.wilhelmbrandenburg.de/

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France – ALBACORE TUNA LOIN – Histamine

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Gov france

Identification information of the recalled product

  • Product category Feed
  • Product subcategory Fishery and aquaculture products
  • Product brand name/
  • Model names or references ALBACORE TUNA LOIN SOLD AT THE FISH STALL OF THE FOLLOWING STORES
  • Identification of products
    Batch
    ALBACORE TUNA LOIN SOLD BETWEEN 28/06 AND 07/07/2022 AT THE FISH STALL OF THE FOLLOWING STORES
  • Products List poster_thon.pdf Attachment
  • Packaging/
  • Marketing start/end date From 06/28/2022 to 07/07/2022
  • Storage temperature Product to be stored in the refrigerator
  • Health mark/
  • Further information/
  • Geographic area of ​​sale Auchan de Plaisir stores, Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle, Saint-Sébastien, Chambray Les Tours, Saint Cyr, Roncq, Englos, Louvroil, Dunkirk, Cambrai, Fâches Thumesnil, Saint-Omer, Aubière, Cosne sur Loire, Dury Amiens, Soisy, Bi1 stores in Saint Savine, Buxy and La Chapelle La Reine.
  • Distributors Auchan and Bi1 stores

Practical information regarding the recall

  • Reason for recall Presence of histamine, risk of acute allergy
  • Risks incurred by the consumer Endogenous toxins: histamine (fish, cheese, alcoholic beverages, meats)

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France – String sausage – Listeria monocytogenes

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Gov france

Identification information of the recalled product

  • Product category Feed
  • Product subcategory Meats
  • Product brand name BUTCHER SHOP
  • Model names or references ANDOUILLETE PULLED WITH A STRING
  • Identification of products
    Batch
    batch 06/27/2022
  • Packaging sales area paper packaging
  • Marketing start/end date From 06/28/2022 to 06/30/2022
  • Storage temperature Product to be stored in the refrigerator
  • Further information Sold at the Butcher’s on demand
  • Geographic area of ​​sale Departments: JURA (39), SAONE-ET-LOIRE (71)
  • Distributors sale in butchers only

Practical information regarding the recall

  • Reason for recall Listeria monocytogenes
  • Risks incurred by the consumer Listeria monocytogenes (causative agent of listeriosis)

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France – Marinated Chicken Wings – Salmonella

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Gov france

Identification information of the recalled product

  • Product category Feed
  • Product subcategory Others
  • Product brand name Services
  • Model names or references Marinated chicken wings
  • Identification of products
    Batch Date
    3250422922 Use-by date 06/30/2022
  • Marketing start/end date From 06/27/2022 to 06/29/2022
  • Storage temperature Product to be stored in the refrigerator
  • Further information marinated chicken wings
  • Geographic area of ​​sale Whole France
  • Distributors All distributors working with the supplier servidis

Practical information regarding the recall

  • Reason for recall presence of salmonella on marinated chicken wings
  • Risks incurred by the consumer Salmonella spp (causative agent of salmonellosis)

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France – Basmati rice – Aflatoxin

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Gov france

Identification information of the recalled product

  • Product category Feed
  • Product subcategory Cereals and baked goods
  • Product brand name Golden Sun
  • Model names or references Basmati rice 1kg
  • Identification of products
    GTIN Batch Date
    20364625 / Date of minimum durability 07/13/2023
  • Storage temperature Product to be stored at room temperature
  • Geographic area of ​​sale Some Lidl supermarkets. See attached list.
  • Distributors Some Lidl supermarkets. See attached list.
  • List of points of salelist_of_spm_reminder_rice.pdf

Practical information regarding the recall

  • Reason for recall Investigations carried out due to the detection of aflatoxins on certain batches in Europe, led to the withdrawal and recall of this product as a precaution.
  • Risks incurred by the consumer Aflatoxins

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France – TROUT CARPACCIO – Listeria monocytogenes

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Identification information of the recalled product

  • Product category Feed
  • Product subcategory Prepared meals and snacks
  • Product brand name unbranded (Made in store)
  • Model names or references TROUT CARPACCIO, sold in a fresh-packaged tray, on the SELF-SERVICE Stand of the Seafood Caterer (Le Vent en Poulpe) of the E.LECLERC Store in Roques
  • Identification of products
    GTIN Batch Date
    0205930000000 270622. Packaged in modified atmosphere Use-by date 03/07/2022
  • Packaging Tray under modified atmosphere
  • Marketing start/end date From 06/27/2022 to 07/03/2022
  • Storage temperature Product to be stored in the refrigerator
  • Health mark without
  • Geographic area of ​​sale SELF-SERVICE stand of the Sea Caterer (Le Vent en Octopus) of the E.LECLERC store in Roques
  • Distributors Hypermarket E.LECLERC ROQUES

Practical information regarding the recall

  • Reason for recall PRESENCE OF LSITERIA – count in progress
  • Risks incurred by the consumer Listeria monocytogenes (causative agent of listeriosis)

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