Category Archives: Food Inspections

Belgium – Recall of Bio-Planet – Preparations made from chicken fillet – Salmonella

AFSCA

During microbiological checks at the supplier, the presence of Salmonella was observed in a raw material used in several preparations made from chicken fillet. The use-by date for these products is: 10/21/2020.

In consultation with the AFSCA, Bio-Planet has therefore decided to withdraw the products concerned from sale.

Customers who have purchased these products are advised not to consume them and to bring them back to the store, where they will be reimbursed. In the meantime, all stores have removed the affected products from the shelves.


Description of the products:

• Chicken
gyros • Plain chicken brochettes • Chicken
fillets • Marinated chicken fillets
•
Diced chicken fillets
• Chicken fillets in slices
• Chicken fillets in strips
• Chicken breasts
• Best before date (Best before date): 10/21/2020
• Sales period: from 10/13/2020 to 10/19/2020

Check the date consumption limit for chicken fillets that you purchased from Bio-Planet between 10/13/2020 and 10/19/2020.

These products were sold in the butcher’s department of certain Bio-Planet stores:
Bio-Planet in Wilrijk, Turnhout, Mechelen, Dilbeek, Gent, Nossegem, Leuven, Kortrijk, Mons, Mol, Destelbergen, Jambes, Brugge and Antwerpen.

Possible symptoms of Salmonella poisoning

The possible symptoms of poisoning caused by Salmonella are: fever, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. These symptoms usually appear within 12 to 48 hours after ingestion.

Symptoms usually last 4 to 7 days, and most people recover without specific treatment. Young children, pregnant women, the immunocompromised and the elderly are among the groups at risk. In these people, the symptoms can be severe enough to require hospitalization of the patient.

People who have consumed these products and who present this type of symptoms are invited to consult their doctor, notifying him of this consumption.

For more information, customers can contact Colruyt Group Customer Service
on 0800 99 124 .

Iceland – Suspicion of Salmonella in chicken

MAST

Campylobacter kswfoodworld

Matvælastofnun warns against consuming one batch of chicken from Matfugl marked Ali, Bónus or FK due to suspicion of salmonella infection. The company has recalled the product from the market.

The recall only applies to the following batch:

  • Product name: Ali, Bónus, FK
  • Producer: Matfugl ehf, Völuteigi 2, 270 Mosfellsbær
  • Lot number: 011-20-37-5-26, marked as RLNR: 0112037526   (whole chicken, breast, puffins, bits)
  • Distribution: Bonus Stores, Króna Stores, Fjarðarkaup, Hraðbúðin Hellissandi

Consumers who have purchased chicken with this traceability number are asked to return it to the relevant store or directly to Matfugl ehf., Völuteigi 2, Mosfellsbær.

France – Product recall: Roast chicken brand Poultry Offer – Listeria monocytogenes

Oulah

Product recall: Roast chicken brand Poultry Offer

ENCOUNTERED PROBLEM

Possible presence of Listeria monocytogenes

PROPOSED SOLUTION

Those in possession of this product are asked not to consume it and to return it to the point of sale where it was purchased.

People who have consumed this product and who have a fever, isolated or accompanied by headaches, are invited to consult their doctor, notifying him of this consumption.
Pregnant women should pay special attention to these symptoms, as well as immunocompromised people and the elderly. These symptoms may suggest listeriosis, a disease that can be serious and can take up to eight weeks to incubate.

FURTHER INFORMATION

▸ Weight
around 1.2 kg

▸ Barcode
3263856894712

▸ Lot
A077142

▸ DLC
01/11/2020

▸ Health
stamp FR 56.017.001 CE

▸ Consumer service contact
For any further information, you can contact customer service by dialing the telephone number: 09 70 17 10 00 (non-surcharged call) from Monday to Saturday from 8:30 am to 10 pm or by e-mail at the contact address @ franprix.fr

▸ Source
https://www.franprix.fr/

Research – Food Fraud With Nasty Results – Norovirus

Food Safety Tech

Norovirus Food Safety kswfoodworld

Global food supply chains are complex and therefore quite vulnerable to errors or fraudulent activity. A company in Chile repackaged and falsely labeled cheap raspberries from China, reselling them as top-level organic Chilean raspberries in Canada. These raspberries were linked to a norovirus outbreak in Canada, sickening hundreds of people. A whistleblower complaint helped to uncover this fraudulent scheme that posed a significant risk to human health.

Malaysia – Over 200 students at Kuala Klawang Mara Junior Science College down with suspected food poisoning

The Star

SEREMBAN: More than 200 students at the Kuala Klawang Mara Junior Science College near here are believed to have come down with food poisoning after a meal, says state education committee chairman Datuk Dr Mohamad Rafie Ab Malek.

He said four had to be admitted at the Jelebu Hospital for observation but they should be discharged on Wednesday (Oct 21).

“The four are in stable condition. Overall, the situation is under control,” he said, adding that the authorities were still investigating what made the students ill.

He said 54 students were 13 years old, 53 (14 years), 42 (15 years) and 41 (16 years).

The students had complained of nausea and diarrhoea between 2am and 4am today.

There are 724 students at the college.

Mohamad Rafie said the college cafeteria will be closed for two weeks to allow the health authorities to probe the matter.

“This is also to prevent a recurrence,” he said, adding that a supplier appointed by the Jelebu Health office will provide meals to the students till investigations are completed.

France – Product recall: Roast chicken in a microwave safe bag, L’Etal du poulailler – Listeria monocytogenes

Oulah

Product recall: Roast chicken in a microwave safe bag, L'Etal du poulailler

ENCOUNTERED PROBLEM

Presence of Listeria monocytogens

PROPOSED SOLUTION

People who hold this product are asked not to consume it and to return it to the point of sale where it was purchased for reimbursement even without presentation of the receipt.

People who have consumed this product and who have a fever, isolated or accompanied by headaches, are invited to consult their doctor, notifying him of this consumption.
Pregnant women should pay special attention to these symptoms, as well as immunocompromised people and the elderly. These symptoms may suggest listeriosis, a disease that can be serious and can take up to eight weeks to incubate.

FURTHER INFORMATION

▸ Barcode
4334035331744

▸ DLC
03/11/2020

▸ Lot
A077142

▸ Health
stamp FR 56.017.001 CE

▸ List of LIDL supermarkets concerned
Click here

▸ Marketing date
from 10/14/2020 to 10/20/2020

▸ Consumer service contact
The LIDL consumer service is also available at the following telephone number: 0 800 900 343 from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Saturday.

▸ Source
https://www.lidl.fr/fr

USA – Salmonella Paratyphi B outbreak linked to Woodbury, Minnesota juice bar

Outbreak News Today

Food Poisoning Salmonella

Minnesota health officials report investigating an outbreak of salmonellosis associated with NéktƏr Juice Bar in Woodbury. Nine Minnesotans so far have been sickened with a specific variant of Salmonella Paratyphi B infections.

The nine cases identified as part of this outbreak range in age from 20 to 82 years, but with a median age of 26. The cases became ill between Aug. 27 and Sept. 21. Two cases have been hospitalized; all are recovering. All of the cases live in or visited East metro counties.

Belgium – Delfood Recall – American kind of 350g LOUIS brand – Listeria monocytogenes

AFSCA

As a precautionary measure and in agreement with Afsca, the firm DELFOOD is withdrawing from sale the 350g plain American trays of the LOUIS brand bearing the batch number 8404220 – DLC 20/10/2020 .

This recall action only concerns the aforementioned product, in very limited quantities, for the batch number communicated.
No other product in the LOUIS range is affected.

We ask that you return the suspicious product (s) you purchased from your store. They will be fully refunded.

The products were marketed at the following points of sale:
Louis Delhaize – JAN BIJLSTRAAT, 17- 9300 AALST
Louis Delhaize – Stuiverstraat, 327- 8400 Oostende
Louis Delhaize – GONTRODE HEIRWEG, 25 -9090 MISS
Louis Delhaize – Margote 18- 9260 WICHELEN
Louis Delhaize – Bellestraat, 16 – 9100 SINT NIKLAAS
Louis Delhaize – PLACE OF GUILLEMINS 2B2- 4000 LIEGE
Louis Delhaize – VILVOORDELAAN, 92 – 1930 ZAVENTEM
Louis Delhaize – PASTOOR VENDELMANSTRT 22 – 1600 SINT-PIETERS-LEEUW
Louis Delhaize – RUE BELLIARD, 141- 1040 BRUSSELS
Louis Delhaize – RUE REPEN VREREN 53 – 1020 LAEKEN
Louis Delhaize – RUE DE L’EGLISE 2 – 5060 MOIGNELEE
Louis Delhaize – PLACE SIMONIS, 2 -1081 KOEKELBERG
Louis Delhaize – RUE DU CROISEAU, 151- 1460 ITTRE
Louis Delhaize – CHAUSSE D’ENGHIEN, 248 -1480 SAINTES
Louis Delhaize – CHAUSSEE DE CHARLEROI, 172 -1060 SAINT-GILLES
Louis Delhaize – DORP 45 -9860 OOSTERZELE
Louis Delhaize – QUAI DES PENICHES, 59 – 1000 BRUXELLES

For any further information , you can contact us on 071/204228 or the quality department of GHL group on 087/680210.

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

ACSA

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

Germany – CF Grell Nachf. Naturkost GmbH & Co. – Basmati Rice – Aflatoxins

LMW

Warning type: Food
Date of first publication: October 19, 2020
Product name:

Basmati rice, real basmati rice, brown

Product pictures:

6/11/2015-12-16 Packshot (002) .JPG
Manufacturer (distributor): CF Grell Nachf. Naturkost GmbH & Co. KG Boschstrasse 3 24568 Kaltenkirchen
Reason for warning:

Exceeding limit values ​​for aflatoxins

Packaging Unit: 500g
Durability: 11/15/2021
Lot identification: 901584, 901665, 901722
Additional Information: further information can be found in the enclosed consumer information.
Homepage of the manufacturer:

Contact to the responsible authorities:

Berlin:

poststelle@senjustva.berlin.de

Brandenburg:

Konsumenterschutz@Msgiv.Brandenburg.de

Bremen:

Schnellwarnung@gesundheit.bremen.de

Hamburg:

poststelle@bgv.hamburg.de

Schleswig-Holstein:

poststelle@jumi.landsh.de