Weis Markets, Inc., the Sunbury, PA-based supermarket chain with 162 stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia and Maryland, is recalling Weis Quality salads for possible Listeria contamination.
No illnesses have yet been associated with the recall, which Weis announced Monday on its Facebook page. The Weis brand salads are made by Milwaukee-based Garden Fresh Foods.
Ottawa, September 23, 2013 – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Ippolito Fruit and Produce Ltd., are warning the public not to consume the Frisco’s, Queen Victoria and Metro brands spinach described in the link because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.
These products have been distributed in Ontario and Quebec. These products may also have been distributed to other provinces.
There have been no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of these products.
The manufacturer, Ippolito Fruit and Produce Ltd., Burlington, Ontario, is voluntarily recalling the affected products from the marketplace. The CFIA is monitoring the effectiveness of the recall.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says that now fourteen cases of E. coli O157:H7 are associated with contaminated raw milk cheese products manufactured by Gort’s Gouda Cheese Farm in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. There are four people who are ill in British Columbia; eight in Alberta; one in Saskatchewan; and one in Quebec. One person in British Columbia has died as a result of this infection.
Ill persons started getting sick between mid-July and early September. Some of Gort’s raw milk cheeses have been recalled as a result of this outbreak. The statement said that “there is currently no indication of widespread risk to Canadians. However, E. coli O157:H7 can pose a serious public health risk. Additional cases of illness may be identified and linked to this outbreak in the future.”
With a nearly 50-percent mortality rate, Vibrio vulnificus is the most deadly foodborne pathogen in the world, according to University of North Carolina at Charlotte Biology Professor Jim Oliver. And instances of infection in the U.S., however rare, are rapidly rising.
Fifteen years ago, there were 21 confirmed cases of Vibrio vulnificus and parahaemolyticus infections in the U.S. Last year, there were 193.
While infections from either of the pathogens are still rare compared with, say, Salmonella and Campylobacter, the incidence rate grew faster than any of the other five microbes tracked in the Centers for Disease Control’s 2012 Food Safety Progress Report. The vulnificus strain is responsible for 95 percent of seafood-related illness fatalities in the U.S., according to a 2013 study by Oliver and Joanna Nowakowska. Another Vibrio strain, parahaemolyticus, is milder, causing diarrhea, nausea, fever and chills, according to CDC.
RASFF – Histamine (240 mg/kg – ppm) in chilled tuna loins from Spain
Posted in Bacteria, Food Chemistry, Food Hygiene, Food Illness, Food Inspections, Food Micro Blog, Food Poisoning, Food Safety, Food Testing, Histamine, Microbiology, Pathogen, RASFF, Recall, Toxin
Tagged food, ppm, restaurants, spain, tuna loins
RASFF -Listeria monocytogenes (2600, <10 CFU/g) in smoked halibut from Belgium, with raw material from Denmark
RASFF -Listeria monocytogenes (<10 CFU/g) in various tuna, smoked salmon and sea food salads from Belgium in France
RASFF -Campylobacter coli (2800; 45000 CFU/g) and Campylobacter jejuni (3200; 120000 CFU/g) in fresh whole chicken, breast fillet from France in Den mark
RASFF -Bacillus cereus (39000 CFU/g) in ginger powder from India, via France in Switzerland
RASFF -Bacillus cereus (14000 CFU/g) in curry powder from India in Switzerland
RASFF – Bacillus cereus (55000 CFU/g) in curry powder from India in Switzerland
Posted in Bacillus, Bacillus cereus, Bacteria, Campylobacter, Food Inspections, Food Microbiology, Food Safety, Food Safety Alert, Food Testing, Listeria, Listeria monocytogenes, Microbiology, Pathogen, RASFF, Recall
Tagged bacillus cereus, campylobacter coli, chicken breast fillet, food, restaurants, smoked halibut
RASFF -Salmonella spp. in frozen turkey meat preparation from Brazil in the Netherlands
RASFF -Salmonella Heidelberg (presence /25g) in frozen whole chicken (Gallus gallus) from Brazil in Denmark
RASFF -Salmonella enteritidis (presence /25g) in chicken steak without bone from Poland in the Czech Republic
RASFF – Salmonella spp. in frozen chicken leg quarters from Denmark
RASFF -Shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (O103 VT1 EAE positive) in quick-frozen deer meat from Austria in Italy
RASFF – Shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (presence /25g) in frozen boneless beef (Bos taurus) from Brazil inItaly
Posted in Bacteria, E.coli, Food Hygiene, Food Inspections, Food Micro Blog, Food Microbiology, Food Safety, Food Safety Alert, Food Testing, Laboratory, Microbiology, Pathogen, RASFF, Recall, Shigatoxin, STEC
Tagged boneless beef, deer meat, escherichia coli, food, initaly, restaurants
RASFF – Aflatoxins (B1 = 24 µg/kg – ppb) in pistachio kernels from Turkey in Itlay
RASFF – Aflatoxins (B1 = 30; Tot. = 36 µg/kg – ppb) in melon seeds from Nigeria in Italy
RASFF -Ochratoxin A (33 µg/kg – ppb) in roasted groundnuts in shell from China in the Netherlands
RASFF – Aflatoxins (B1 = 11.4; Tot. = 31.4 µg/kg – ppb) in dried figs from Turkey in France
RASFF -Aflatoxins (B1 = 12.7; Tot. = 13.2 µg/kg – ppb) in pistachio nuts from Turkey in Germany
RASFF – Aflatoxins (B1 = 14.7; Tot. = 16.1 µg/kg – ppb) in crushed chilly from India in the UK
