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USA – Warning letters cite artisanal smokehouse and bakery for Listeria

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CATSMO LLC, Wallkill, NY
Markus Draxler, CEO
In a March 25 warning letter the FDA described a Nov. 18 – Dec. 12, 2019, inspection at CATSMO LLC in Wallkill, NY. Inspectors found that the company has serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP). The FDA also collected environmental samples and found the presence of Listeria monocytogenes.

Cafe Valley Bakery, LLC, Phoenix, AZ
Brian Owens, CEO
In a March 18 warning letter the FDA described a Nov. 5 – Dec. 17, 2019, inspection at Cafe Valley Bakery LLC in Phoenix, AZ. Inspectors found that the company has serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation. Additionally, the FDA collected environmental samples from various areas in the processing facility and analysis of the environmental swabs found the presence of Listeria monocytogenes.

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Afganistan – Afghan Authorities Say 26 Police Officers Poisoned In Laghman Province

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Police in Afghanistan had 26 of its officers sustain food poisoning after consuming lunch in the eastern Laghman province, the provincial governor‘s spokesman Asadullah Dawlatzai told Sputnik on Saturday.

According to the spokesman, the police are now probing the food contractor, and an investigation is underway to determine how officers were poisoned.

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RASFF Alert – Listeria monocytogenes -Ra Milk Cheese – Salad with Vegetables, toasts, cream egg and Smoked Salmon

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RASFF – Listeria monocytogenes (110 CFU/g) in chilled raw milk cheese from France in France

RASFF – Listeria monocytogenes (<10 CFU/g) in salad with vegetables, toasts, cream, egg and smoked salmon from France in France

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RASFF Alert- Enterobacteriaceae – Ground Almonds

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RASFF – high count of Enterobacteriaceae (70000 CFU/g) in ground almonds from Germany in Austria

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RASFF Alert- Aflatoxin – Blanched Groundnuts

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RASFF – aflatoxins (B1 = 3; Tot. = 5.9 µg/kg – ppb) in blanched groundnuts from China in Spain

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RASFF Alert – Ochratoxin A – Dried Figs

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RASFF – ochratoxin A (39.7 µg/kg – ppb) in dried figs from Spain in Switzerland

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RASFF Alert – DON – Mycotoxin – Durum Wheat

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RASFF – deoxynivalenol (DON) (4023.1 µg/kg – ppb) in durum wheat from Italy in Italy

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RASFF Alert – Mould – Cheese

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RASFF – cheese from Sweden infested with moulds in Denmark

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RASFF Alerts – Salmonella – Chicken Broiler Fillets – Chilled Bacon and Smokey Apple Marinade -Boneless Half Chicken Fillets -Chicken Meat – Chicken Breast – Chicken Quarters

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RASFF – Salmonella enterica ser. Enteritidis (presence /25g) in frozen chicken broiler fillets from Poland in Lithuania

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /10g) in chilled bacon in smoky apple marinade from Estonia in Estonia

RASFF – Salmonella (in 2 out of 5 samples /25g) in frozen salted skinless boneless half chicken breasts from Brazil in the UK

RASFF – Salmonella enterica ser. Enteritidis (presence /25g) in frozen chicken fresh meat from Poland in France

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /25g) in frozen salted half chicken breasts from Brazil in the Netherlands

RASFF – Salmonella enterica ser. Enteritidis (present /25g) in frozen chicken leg quarters from Poland in Bulgaria

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Netherlands – Dutch Salmonella illnesses linked to Brazilian poultry

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Chicken meat from Brazil is being investigated as the source of Salmonella illnesses in the Netherlands.

Between the end of 2019 and mid-February 2020, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) identified a cluster of six Salmonella Virchow infections distributed across the country using whole genome sequencing (WGS) but no epidemiological link among them was reported.

An outbreak investigation by RIVM and the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) identified six food isolates as genetically closely related to cases and associated with the source of the infection.

These isolates came from poultry meat, including frozen poultry imported from Brazil.

 

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