Category Archives: Food Testing

Canada – Updated Food Recall Warning – Sunsprout brand Micro – Greens, Alfalfa recalled due to Salmonella

CFIA

Sunsprout - Micro – Greens Alfalfa - 100 g

Recall details

Ottawa, October 1, 2020 – The Food Recall Warning issued on September 19, 2020 has been updated to include additional distribution information. This additional information was identified during the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) food safety investigation.

Sunsprout Natural Foods is recalling Sunsprout brand Micro – Greens, Alfalfa from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination. Consumers should not consume and retailers, restaurants, and institutions should not sell or use the recalled product described below.

Recalled products

Brand Product Size UPC Codes
Sunsprout Micro – Greens Alfalfa 100 g 0 57621 13511 6 All best before dates up to and including BBOCT13

What you should do

If you think you became sick from consuming a recalled product, call your doctor.

Check to see if you have the recalled product in your home or establishment. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the location where they were purchased.

Food contaminated with Salmonella may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Young children, pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems may contract serious and sometimes deadly infections. Healthy people may experience short-term symptoms such as fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. Long-term complications may include severe arthritis.

Background

This recall was triggered by findings by the CFIA during its investigation into a foodborne illness outbreak. The CFIA is conducting a food safety investigation, which may lead to the recall of other products. If other high-risk products are recalled, the CFIA will notify the public through updated Food Recall Warnings.

The CFIA is verifying that industry is removing the recalled product from the marketplace.

Illnesses

Public Health Ontario is investigating an outbreak of human illness associated with consumption of these products.

RASFF Alerts – Salmonella – Pork Carcasses – Chicken Quarters – Chicken Fillets – Black Pepper – Minced Beef Meat – Chicken Meat – Frozen Roast Duck Meal – Chicken Thighs – Turkey Meat -Sesame Seeds – Poultry Meat Chicken Breasts

European Food Alerts

RASFF

Salmonella (presence /10g) in chilled pork carcasses from Belgium in Poland

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Salmonella (presence /25g) in fresh chicken quarters from Poland in Lithuania

RASFF

Salmonella enterica ser. Enteritidis (presence /25g) in chilled chicken broiler quarters from Poland in Lithuania

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Salmonella enterica ser. Enteritidis (presence /25g) in frozen chicken fillets from Poland in France

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Salmonella enterica ser. Abaetetuba (presence /25g) and Salmonella enterica ser. Cerro (presence /25g) in black pepper from Brazil in Germany

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Salmonella enterica ser. Javiana (presence /25g) and Salmonella enterica ser. Rubislaw (presence /25g) in black pepper from Brazil in Germany

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Salmonella enterica ser. Infantis (in 3 out of 5 samples /25g) in minced beef meat from Denmark, with raw material from Germany in Finland

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Salmonella enterica ser. Typhimurium monophasic (1 ,4, [5], 12:i:-) (presence /25g) in chilled chicken meat from France in France

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Salmonella in frozen roast made of duck breast, goose breast and guinea fowl breast, with pork, apple and apricot stuffing, and orange glaze from the United Kingdom, with raw material from Hungary in the UK

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Salmonella (presence /25g) in frozen chicken meat preparation from Belgium in Belgium

RASFF

Salmonella enterica ser. Enteritidis (in 4 out of 5 samples /25g) and Salmonella enterica ser. Infantis (in 1 out of 5 samples /25g) in chilled chicken thighs from Poland in Lithuania

RASFF

Salmonella (presence /25g) in frozen turkey meat from Poland in Italy

RASFF

Salmonella (in 1 out of 5 samples /25g) in hulled sesame seeds from India in the Netherlands

RASFF

Salmonella enterica ser. Infantis (present /25g) in frozen chicken breast fillets from Poland in Bulgaria

RASFF

Salmonella enterica ser. Abaetetuba (presence /25g) in black pepper from Brazil in Germany

RASFF

Salmonella enterica ser. Infantis (present /25g) in chilled poultry meat from Romania in Italy

RASFF

Salmonella enterica ser. Enteritidis (in 3 out of 5 samples /25g) in chilled chicken breast fillets from Poland in Poland

RASFF

Salmonella enterica ser. Javiana and Salmonella enterica ser. München in black pepper from Brazil in Germany

RASFF Alerts – Histamine – Wrapped Tuna Sashimi Chunks – Frozen King Fish

European Food Alerts

RASFF

histamine (811 mg/kg – ppm) in wrapped tuna sashimi chunks from Sri Lanka, via the United Kingdom in Ireland

RASFF

histamine (452; 340 mg/kg – ppm) in frozen king fish from Vietnam in the UK

RASFF Alert – E.coli – Live Mussels

European Food Alerts

RASFF

too high count of Escherichia coli (3500 MPN/100g) in live mussels from France in France

RASFF Alert – Pseudomonas fluorescens – Mozzarella

European Food Alerts

RASFF

Pseudomonas fluorescens (130000000 CFU/g) in mozzarella from Italy in Italy

RASFF Alert – Ochratoxin A – Figs

European Food Alerts

RASFF

ochratoxin A (28 µg/kg – ppb) in figs from Turkey in the Netherlands

Wales – Information – Company fined after five suffer food poisoning from fish

Food Safety News

A catering company in Wales has been fined in relation to five people who became ill from eating mackerel in July 2019.

DM Catering (Pembs) Ltd. was fined £2,550 ($3,300) by Haverfordwest magistrates in late September after pleading guilty to storing foods likely to support the growth of pathogenic microorganisms or the formation of toxins at a temperature above 8 degrees C (46.4 degrees F).

The prosecution was brought by Pembrokeshire County Council’s Environmental Health department.

UK -FSA launches consultation into shelf-life guidance for vacuum and modified atmosphere packed chilled beef, lamb and pork

FSA

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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today launched a formal six-week consultation with key stakeholders to inform a review of the guidance on the safety and shelf-life of vacuum and modified atmosphere packed (VP/MAP) chilled beef, lamb and pork.

Currently, the FSA guidance (Opens in a new window)advises that the maximum shelf-life of VP/MAP chilled beef, lamb and pork should be 10 days , unless suitable controls are in place to appropriately reduce associated risks.

This summer the FSA, industry and other partners signed up to a joint statement, committing to working together to review the existing guidance and consider possible changes.

For more information about the consultation and to take part, visit the FSA consultation webpage.  The consultation will close on 11 November 2020.

Italy – AZ. AGR. ARMANNI ANGELO – TREVIOLO (BG) – Raw Milk Cheese – Stracchino – STEC E.coli -eae

MDS

Brand : AZ. AGR. ARMANNI ANGELO – TREVIOLO (BG)

Name : raw milk cheese – stracchino

Reason for reporting : Recall due to microbiological risk

Publication date : 30 September 2020

Documentation

Documentation

Spain – Firm Fined 2000 Euros for Spain’s Worst Listeria Outbreak

Diario de Sevilla

A fine of 2,000 euros now , two years after the Magrudis company caused the largest outbreak of listeriosis in the history of Spain. The Seville City Council has sanctioned the Magrudis company with this amount for various irregularities detected in the license granted at the time for the production of La Mechá brand products, whose infection with the bacterium listeria monocytogenes has caused four deaths and six abortions , in addition to more than 200 injured by the consumption of these products.