The food recall warning issued on January 7, 2015 has been updated to include additional information. This additional information was identified during the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) food safety investigation
Industry is recalling Granny Smith apples and Gala apples exported by Bidart Bros. in the United States (US) from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Identified importers of the recalled products include Beauvais Ltee., Courchesne Larose and Coosemans Montreal Inc. Consumers should not consume and retailers, restaurants and institutions should not sell or use the recalled products described in the link below.
A norovirus outbreak has sickened at least 30 people who visited a Chuck E. Cheese in Woodbury, MN last week. The restaurant closed for a cleaning in Tuesday evening and reopened Wednesday afternoon.
Symptoms of a norovirus infection are vomiting and diarrhea. No hospitalizations have been reported. It is not clear how many of those sickened were children.
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Tagged Chuck E. Cheese, food poisoning, norovirus infection, norovirus outbreak
A popular Chinese restaurant in southeast Queensland has been shut down after more than 100 people fell ill with suspected salmonella food poisoning.
Metro South Health believe contaminated raw eggs are the cause of the outbreak at Chin Chin Chinese in Springwood over the weekend.
It’s believed more than 150 people ate at the restaurant, with people falling ill from Saturday night.
Details of the products are as follows:
(1) Product name: Fuzizoue Preserved Tofu (Spicy)
Place of origin: Hong Kong
Package: 463 grams per bottle
Best before date: June 18, 2016
(2) Product name: Pearl River Bridge Chili Fermented Beancurd
Place of origin: China
Package: 325 grams per bottle
Best before date: November 24, 2016
Batch number: SZ 140235
The Fuzizoue Preserved Tofu sample was collected at a supermarket in Sha Tin for testing under CFS’ regular Food Surveillance Programme. Test result showed that the sample contained Bacillus cereus at a level of 1 300 000 per gram.
– The Pearl River Bridge Chili Fermented Beancurd sample, it was taken at the office of the importer/distributor of the product in question during CFS’ follow-up investigations into an unsatisfactory sample of the same kind of the product, but from a different batch, announced last month. Test result showed that the sample contained Bacillus cereus at a level of 280 000 per gram.
– According to the ‘Microbiological Guidelines for Food’, it is potentially injurious to health or unfit for human consumption if a gram of ready-to-eat food contains more than 100 000 of Bacillus cereus.
– Consuming food contaminated with excessive Bacillus cereus may cause gastrointestinal upset such as vomiting and diarrhoea.
RASFF– Fresh dough from Spain infested with moulds in Italy
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RASFF-Salmonella enteritidis (presence /25g) in frozen chicken legs from Poland in France
RASFF-Salmonella spp. (presence /25g) in hulled sesame seeds from India in Poland
RASFF-Salmonella group E1 (presence /25g) in chocolate waffle ball with hazelnut from Germany in Germany
RASFF-Salmonella spp. (present /25g) in dry sausage from France in France
RASFF-Salmonella spp. (presence /25g) in pork trimmings from Germany in Sweden
RASFF-Salmonella spp. (presence /25g) in cooked and peeled prawn from Vietnam in Belgium
RASFF-Salmonella spp. (presence /25g) in sesame seeds from India in Italy
RASFF-Salmonella anatum (presence /25g) in hulled sesame seeds from India in Norway
RASFF-Salmonella spp. in mechanically separated poultry meat from Belgium, with raw material from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in Belgium
