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Canada – Réserve Festive brand Strong Cider recalled due to possible bursting bottles – Microbial Spoilage

CFIA

Summary

Product
Strong Cider
Issue
Food – Microbial Contamination – Non harmful (quality or spoilage)
What to do

Do not use, sell, serve or distribute the affected product.

Audience
Retail
Distribution
Quebec

Réserve Festive brand Strong Cider recalled due to possible bursting bottles.

USA – Update: Quaker Issues Revised Recall Notice with Additional Products Due to Possible Health Risk

FDA

Summary

Company Announcement Date:
FDA Publish Date:
Product Type:
Food & Beverages
Reason for Announcement:
Potential for Salmonella contamination
Company Name:
The Quaker Oats Company
Brand Name:
Multiple brand names
Product Description:
Cereal, bars, and snacks

Company Announcement

A previous press release was issued on 12/15/2023. This new press release is to communicate additional products due to possible health risk.

CHICAGO, Illinois – January 11, 2024 – The Quaker Oats Company today announced an expansion of the December 15, 2023, recall to include additional cereals, bars and snacks listed below because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.

The products listed in the link above  are sold throughout the 50 United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and Saipan. Consumers should check their pantries for any of the products listed below and dispose of them. Additionally, consumers with any product noted below can contact Quaker Consumer Relations (9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. CST, Mon.-Fri.) at 1-800-492-9322 or visit www.QuakerRecallUSA.comExternal Link Disclaimer for additional information or product reimbursement.

Consumers can scan the SmartLabel QR code on the product package to determine if it has been recalled. Click here for information on how to use SmartLabel.External Link Disclaimer

Quaker has informed the FDA of our actions.

This recall applies to the specific products listed below, in addition to the products announced on December 15, 2023. A combined list of recalled products is available on www.QuakerRecallUSA.comExternal Link Disclaimer.

For more information, please reference this PDF.”

Peru – Recall Infant Milk Formula – Cronobacter

DIGESA

VOLUNTARY AND PREVENTIVE WITHDRAWAL OF THE FOOD: “NON-DAIRY PREPARATION ADAPTED FOR NURSING BOYS AND GIRLS, WITH DAIRY PROTEIN EXTENSIVELY HYDROLYZED AND PROBIOTIC LGG*®, LACTOSE FREE – NON-DAIRY FORMULA ADAPTED FOR NURSING BOYS AND GIRLS, WITH EXTENSIVELY HYDROLYZED MILK PROTEIN AND PROBIOTIC LGG*®, LACTOSE FREE – “NUTRAMIGEN PREMIUM” (357 g), IMPORTED BY THE COMPANY RB HEALTH PERÚ S.R.L

The General Directorate of Environmental Health and Food Safety – DIGESA of the Ministry of Health, informs the general public who became aware through the company RB HEALTH PERÚ S.R.L., the withdrawal from the market voluntary of its trademark product “NUTRAMIGEN PREMIUM” imported and marketed at national, which is manufactured by the company Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN), from the United States.

This is because the aforementioned company announced that it was voluntarily withdrawing some batches from the US market. specific to a “NUTRAMIGEN” brand product, due to the possibility of contamination with Cronobacter sakazakii from a product tested outside the United States.

USA – Norovirus Outbreak: Raw Oysters Linked To 41 Cases In San Diego County

Patch

SAN DIEGO, CA — Dozens of people have gotten sick after eating raw oysters in San Diego County.

County health officials have linked 41 confirmed and probable cases of norovirus to raw oysters imported from a specific harvest location in Northwest Mexico. Norovirus is the leading cause of vomiting and diarrhea, and foodborne illness in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The cases began in mid-December when people dined on raw oysters from Sonora, Mexico, according to the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency. The oysters were only available through restaurants and wholesale locations.

Health officials have asked those who purchased “Rocky Point oysters,” packed by GOLPAC in Bahia Salina, Sonora, to not eat or serve them until the outbreak investigation is completed.

USA – Cheese recalled in Hawaii due to Listeria

Food Poison Journal

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The Hawaiʻi State Department of Health (DOH) is alerting residents to a voluntary recall of Rizo Bros. California Creamery’s Cotija Aged Mexican Grating Cheese, batch number 4DW-23318, for potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes. This product was distributed nationwide, including retailers in Hawaiʻi such as R. Field Wine Company, select Foodland and Foodland Farms supermarkets, and Cost.U.Less Hilo.

This recall is the result of a food sampling and analysis partnership conducted by DOH’s Laboratory Preparedness and Response Branch (LPRB) and Food and Drug Branch (FDB), and funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to collect certain food products and test for Salmonellaand/or Listeria monocytogenes to protect public health.

FDA Advises Restaurants and Retailers Not to Serve or Sell and Consumers Not to Eat Certain Whole, Live Scallops Believed to Be Harvested from a Prohibited Area in Massachusetts and Distributed by Intershell International Corp (MA 7802 SP)

FDA

Audience

  • Restaurants and food retailers in Illinois (IL), Massachusetts (MA), New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), and Pennsylvania (PA) that have recently purchased certain Intershell International Corp (MA 7802 SP) whole, live scallops that were received from an unlicensed harvester, believed to be harvested from prohibited waters in MA and incorrectly labeled as harvest location FED 514, with harvest dates 12/26/23, 12/27/23 and 01/01/24.
  • Consumers in IL, MA, NJ, NY, and PA who have recently purchased or consumed certain Intershell International Corp (MA 7802 SP) whole, live scallops, that were received from an unlicensed harvester, believed to be harvested from prohibited waters in MA and incorrectly labeled as harvest location FED 514, with harvest dates 12/26/23, 12/27/23 and 01/01/24.

Product

Certain whole, live scallops that were received from an unlicensed harvester, believed to be harvested from prohibited waters in MA and incorrectly labeled as harvest location FED 514, with harvest dates 12/26/23, 12/27/23 and 01/01/24 that were distributed to IL, MA, NJ, NY, and PA. It is possible that these scallops may have been distributed to other states as well.

Purpose

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers not to eat, and restaurants and food retailers not to sell, and to dispose of certain Intershell International Corp (MA 7802 SP) whole, live scallops that were received from an unlicensed harvester, believed to be harvested from prohibited waters in MA and incorrectly labeled as harvest location FED 514, with harvest dates 12/26/23, 12/27/23 and 01/01/24 because they may be contaminated. The scallops were directly distributed to distributors and retailers in IL, MA, NJ, NY, and PA and may have been distributed further from these states.

Scallops harvested from prohibited waters may be contaminated with human pathogens, toxic elements or poisonous or deleterious substances and can cause illness if consumed.

Chile – Salmonella outbreak in Chile caused by cheese

Food Safety News

Health officials in Chile have reported a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 60 people.

So far, 66 people have been affected by the outbreak resulting from eating goat’s cheese in the Metropolitan Region.

Overall, 28 cases have been reported in the Valparaíso Region and 38 in the Metropolitan Region, including seven hospitalizations.

Epidemiological work identified a producer of cheese who informally sold contaminated products in different parts of the province via commercial premises and the area of Llay Llay. Authorities have stopped cheese production.

Hong Kong – Trade instructed to suspend importing and selling raw oysters harvested in area 50-07 Saint Vaast La Hougue in France

CFS

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (January 8) instructed the trade to suspend the import of raw oysters harvested in area 50-07 Saint Vaast La Hougue in France. The trade should also stop using or selling the product concerned immediately should they possess it.

A spokesman for the CFS said, “The CFS received notifications from the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed of the European Commission that ready-to-eat raw oysters harvested in area 50-07 Saint Vaast La Hougue in France were detected with norovirus and the area concerned was closed. A preliminary investigation by the CFS found that a local importer, Alliance Gourmet Limited, had imported the affected raw oysters. For the sake of prudence, the CFS has immediately suspended the import into and sale within Hong Kong of raw oysters harvested in the area concerned, and instructed the importer to stop sales and remove from shelves the affected oysters.”

The spokesman said that preliminary investigation by the CFS found that five kilograms of the affected oysters had been imported by the importer concerned. All were distributed to a restaurant and were consumed. The trade should also stop selling other products from the affected area if they possess them.

The spokesman pointed out that as oysters feed by filtering a large volume of seawater, pathogens can accumulate in them if they are grown in or harvested from contaminated water. Raw or partially cooked oysters are high-risk foods. Susceptible groups, such as pregnant women, young children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems or liver diseases, should avoid eating raw oysters.

The CFS will inform the French authorities and will also notify the local trade. It will continue to follow up on the incident and take appropriate action to safeguard food safety and public health. An investigation is ongoing.

France – BUTTERNUT HAZELNUT PUREE 1.5KG – Microbiological Safety/Spoilage

Gov France

Product category
Food
Product subcategory
Soups, sauces and condiments
Product brand name
EPC
Model names or references
00025452.002 BUTTERNUT HAZELNUT PUREE 1.5KG
Product identification
GTIN Batch Date
3368270254521 Lot No. = 4393015278 with sublot 23.333.8205384801.02 This is indeed the lot ending in 02 Use-by date 01/23/2024
Products List
identification_table.pdfAttachment
Packaging
1.5kg vacuum bag
Start/end date of marketing
From 12/13/2023 to 12/27/2023
Storage temperature
Product to keep in the refrigerator
Health mark
FR72 253 002 CE
Further information
Orange butternut puree in 1.5kg vacuum bag Lot number = 4393015278 with sublot 23.333.8205384801.02 This is indeed the lot ending with 02
Geographical sales area
Whole France
Distributors
RHD

French oyster farmers fear reputation damage as Norovirus scares off customers

RFI

Despite being Europe’s biggest producer and consumer of oysters, France is facing a decline in demand after a wave of norovirus-induced food poisoning.

Heavy rains are to blame for contaminated oyster beds as wastewater treatment floods and washes untreated sewage into the ocean.