Category Archives: Food Inspections

Iceland – Suspicion of Listeria in breaded ham

MAST

The Swedish Food Agency wants to warn against the consumption of two batches of breaded ham from Stjörnugrís due to suspected listeria. The company has recalled the ham in consultation with the Swedish Food Agency.

The recall only applies to the following production batches:

  • Product name: Breaded ham
  • Producer: Star Pig
  • Last date of use: 16.05.2024
  • Batch number: 606124096
  • Distribution: Bonus, Kronan, Netto, School food.
  • Product name: Breaded ham
  • Producer: Star Pig
  • Last date of use: 14.05.2024
  • Batch number: 606124093
  • Distribution: Bonus, Kronan, Netto, School food

Consumers who have purchased the product are advised not to consume it, dispose of it or return it to the store.

Advanced material

Press release from Star Pig

Canada – Kingwuu brand and T&T Kitchen brand meat and vegetable products recalled due to Listeria monocytogenes

CFIA

Kingwuu - Cold Pork Head - 180 g - Front

Meat and vegetable products
Issue
Food – Microbial Contamination – Listeria
What to do

Do not consume, use, sell, serve or distribute recalled products

Distribution
Alberta
British Columbia
Possibly other provinces and territories

Issue

The affected products are being recalled from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.

What you should do

  • If you think you became sick from consuming a recalled product, contact your healthcare provider
  • Check to see if you have recalled products
  • Do not consume, serve, use, sell, or distribute recalled products
  • Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the location where they were purchased

Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, infection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die.

Germany – Organic orchard fruit pear juice 1 litre – Mycotoxin – Patulin

Lebensmittelwarnung

Alert type: Groceries
Date of first publication: April 26, 2024
Product name:

Organic orchard fruit pear juice 1 liter

Product images:

Image Pear Juice.PNG

customer information; Illustration of a glass bottle with a label and a bottle cap with a printed best-before date

Manufacturer (distributor):

Jung Fruit Juices GbR Goethestr. 18 79331 Teningen-Köntreiben Email: info@jung-saefte.de Telephone: 07641 96 22 02 2 Sales are limited to Baden-Württemberg.

Reason for warning:

An increased patulin content was found during an examination of an individual sample.

Packaging Unit: 1 L
Durability: 12/13/25
Lot identification: EAN 4028748000089
Additional Information:

Excerpt from the attached customer information:

The company Jung Fruchtsäfte informs that an increased patulin content was found in the product. Organic Scattered Fruit Pear Juice 1l, EAN 4028748000089
as part of an investigation on a single sample.

Only bottles with a best-before date of December 13, 2025 are affected.
The best before date can be found on the lid of the bottle.

If you have already purchased bottles of this type of juice with the stated best-before date, please return them to the market.
You will then get them exchanged. Please do not consume this product!

The JUNG FRUCHTSÄFTE company sincerely apologizes for the inconvenience caused to you.

Click to access 6323_Marktaushang_Jung_Birnensaft.pdf

USA – Tama Corporation Recalls Product Because of Possible Health Risk – Listeria monocytogenes

FDA

Tama Corporation of Doral FL is recalling 24-ounce containers of “Queso de Mano PAISA” have contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Listeria infection may cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

Because of our commitment to the safety of our consumers, at Tama Corporation, we demand rigorous quality controls from our products suppliers. In this regard, we were informed by the co-packer of our QUESO DE MANO PAISA, that a batch of 18 cases distributed in Salt Lake City, Utah, was suspicious of Listeria monocytogenes contamination, and we immediately contacted the involved supermarket chain to halt its sale and account for all the product belonging to that vat.

Today, it has been confirmed that a sample from this batch is contaminated.

  • The recalled “Queso de Mano Paisa” was only sold in Utah, at Rancho Markets stores.
  • The product is packaged in a 24-ounce plastic container. Recalled lot number is: 2420104. BEST BY MAY 16, 2024
  • Lot code can be found on the clear plastic lid of the container. Product UPC: 838795000338.

The recall was initiated after one laboratory analysis came out suspicious of that lot sample being contaminated. After a second analysis, this was confirmed. No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with this problem.

We assure all our consumers, clients and distributors that we have taken all necessary actions, hand in hand with the product manufacturer, the FDA, and the USDA, to prevent the situation from happening again.

Consumers with questions may contact the company at 305-592-1717 Monday to Friday, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST or via email: info@elpaisa.net.

France – Grated 3 cheeses Maasdam, Emmental, Mozzarella 200g NETTO – Listeria monocytogenes

Gov France

Product category
Food
Product subcategory
Milk and dairy products
Product brand name
CLEAN
Model names or references
Grated 3 cheeses Maasdam, Emmental, Mozzarella 200g NETTO
Product identification
GTIN Batch Date
3250392354404 107B (all times) Minimum durability date 06/26/2024
Packaging
200g
Start/end date of marketing
From 04/17/2024 to 04/24/2024
Storage temperature
Product to keep in the refrigerator
Health mark
FR 44.023.001 CE
Geographical sales area
Departments: AISNE (02), ARDENNES (08), AUBE (10), COTES-D’ARMOR (22), FINISTERE (29), GIRONDE (33), ILLE-ET-VILAINE (35), LANDES (40), LOIRE-ATLANTIQUE (44), MARNE (51), MEURTHE-ET-MOSELLE (54), MEUSE (55), MORBIHAN (56), NORD (59), PAS-DE-CALAIS (62), PYRENEES-ATLANTIQUES (64 ), HAUTES-PYRENEES (65), SOMME (80)
Distributors
CLEAN

France – MERGEZ HALAL COUSCOUS – Salmonella

Gov France

Product category
Food
Product subcategory
Meats
Product brand name
Unbranded
Model names or references
763930
Product identification
GTIN Batch Date
3267411546009 970/241130031 Use-by date 05/10/2024
Packaging
Plastic tray under modified atmosphere
Start/end date of marketing
From 04/22/2024 to 05/10/2024
Storage temperature
Product to keep in the refrigerator
Health mark
FR 35.353.003 CE
Geographical sales area
Whole France
Distributors
METRO FRANCE
List of points of sale
List_of_METRO_sales_points.pdf

RASFF Alert – Mycotoxin – Chilli Peppers

RASFF

Peperoncino da India mycotoxins in chili peppers from India in Italy

RASFF Alerts – Aflatoxin – Dried Figs – Nutmeg -Groundnuts – Hazelnut Meal – Ground Chillies – Pistachios

RASFF

Aflatoxins in Turkish dried figs in Germany and the Netherlands

RASFF

Aflatoxins in Indonesian nutmeg in the Netherlands

RASFF

Aflatoxin B1 and total aflatoxins in groundnuts from the United States in France

RASFF

Aflatoxin B1 and total aflatoxins in dried figs from Turkey in France

RASFF

Aflatoxin B1 and total aflatoxins in hazelnut meal from Georgia in France

RASFF

Aflatoxine B1 in groundnuts from Paraguay in the Netherlands

RASFF

Aflatoxins in ground chilies from Germany in Romania

RASFF

Aflatoxins in pistachios from Turkey and the USA in Spain

RASFF Alerts – Salmonella – Polish Poultry Products – Brazilian Poultry Products – Sesame seeds – Raisins – Walnut Kernels – Chicken Inner Fillet Meat – Sock Samples – Chicken Meat Preparations

RASFF

Salmonella spp in sesame seeds from Türkiye in Greece

Gov France

Salmonella spp in chicken meat preparation Brazil in the Netherlands

RASFF

Salmonella spp in raisins from Türkiye in the Netherlands

RASFF

Salmonella spp. in walnut kernels from the United States, via the Netherlands in Germany

RASFF

Salmonella spp in chicken kebab from Poland in Spain

RASFF

Salmonella spp. in chicken/turkey kebab from Poland in Italy

RASFF

Salmonella Minnesota in salted chicken breast from Brazil in Germany

RASFF

Salmonella Heidelberg in poultry meat preparation from Brazil in Germany

RASFF

Salmonella spp in Chicken inner fillet Meat in Bulgaria

RASFF

Salmonella Enteritidis in socks samples in the chicken coop from Poland, UK, Ireland and France

RASFF

Detection of salmonella infantis on chicken meat preparations from Spain in France

RASFF Alert- Vibrio vulnificus – Frozen Shrimp

RASFF

Presence of Vibrio vulnificus in frozen aquaculture shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) from Ecuador in Italy