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Food Poisoning Bulletin 

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According to news reports, the food poisoning outbreak in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana has been caused by both Salmonella and Clostridium perfringens bacteria. At least 125 people are sick now, up from 50 yesterday. And thirty-seven people have been hospitalized because their symptoms are so severe.

CFIA

Updated Food Recall Warning – Various brands of vegetable products recalled due to Listeria monocytogenes.

Ottawa, October 22, 2017 – The food recall warning issued on October 20, 2017 has been updated to include additional product information. This additional information was identified during the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) food safety investigation.

Industry is recalling various brands of vegetable products from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume and distributors, retailers and food service establishments such as hotels, restaurants, cafeterias, hospitals and nursing homes should not sell or use the recalled products described below.

FDA 

Relish Foods, Inc Recalls Frozen Tuna Loins Because of Possible Health Risk

On October 13, 2017, Relish Foods, Inc of Culver City, California voluntarily initiated the recall of Frozen Newport Brand Tuna Loins. The recall was the result of sampling by FDA which revealed that the product has potential to contain the bacteria 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. Relish Foods Inc is continuing the investigation with FDA as to what caused the problem.

CFIA

Food Recall Warning – Various brands of vegetable products recalled due to Listeria monocytogenes.

Ottawa, October 19, 2017 – Industry is recalling various brands of vegetable products from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.

Number of illnesses from backyard flocks breaks record

Food Safety News 

It’s been a record year for so-called backyard flocks, and not in a good way. The live poultry are responsible for 10 Salmonella outbreaks in 2017 —  sickening more than 1,100 people across 48 states, killing one.

Although federal officials have concluded their investigations of the 10 outbreaks identified so far this year, they warned in an update Thursday that additional victims are likely to be identified.

Food Safety News

Freshcut veggies recalled across U.S. and Canada for Listeria

Implicated brands include Mann’s, Walmart, Trader Joe’s, HEB, Sysco and more

Neither U.S. nor Canadian officials had posted it as of Thursday night, but a news release from Mann Packing Co. Inc. recalled almost 150 freshcut vegetable products nationwide in both countries because of a positive test showing Listeria contamination.

The recall includes a wide variety of “minimally processed vegetable products” packaged under several brands, including Mann’s, Trader Joe’s Walmart and others. A random test by Canadian officials showed Listeria monocytogenes contamination of one of the products. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency notified Mann Packing of the test result on Tuesday.

CFIA

Updated Food Recall Warning – Yummy Market brand fish products recalled due to potential presence of dangerous bacteria

Ottawa, October 19, 2017 – The food recall warning issued on October 14, 2017 has been updated to include additional distribution and product information. This additional information was identified during the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) food safety investigation.

Yummy Market Inc. is recalling Yummy Market brand fish products from the marketplace because they may permit the growth of Clostridium botulinum. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.

The following products have been sold in Ontario from the locations identified below.

Food Safety News   

More sick, 1 possible death in Salmonella outbreak in Canada

“Janes Pub Style” frozen, breaded chicken products recalled because DNA sample matches victims

Canadian health officials are urging consumers to check their homes for certain frozen “Janes Pub Style” breaded chicken because DNA tests have matched Salmonella in the products to victims of a nationwide outbreak, which already may have killed one person.

Crown won’t prosecute Errington Cheese for 3 year old’s death

Food Safety News

Based on the existing evidence, the Crown Office announced Monday it would not prosecute Scotland’s Errington Cheese Ltd. or its owners for the death of a 3-year old girl in September 2016.

A criminal prosecution is still possible if new evidence becomes available and the authorities may conduct a Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI).

The death came during an outbreak of E. coli O157  in Scotland in 2016 between July and September. Seventeen of the 26 people stricken required hospital care. The likely source of the outbreak and cause of the girl’s death was Errington’s Dunsyre Blue cheese, according to a Health Protection Scotland (HPS) report published in March 2017.The family-owned Errington, based in Lanarkshire, has never accepted that its unpasteurized Dunsyre Blue caused the outbreak or the death.

Food Recall Warning – Agropur Import Collection brand Firm Ripened Comté Cheese recalled due to Listeria monocytogenes

CFIA

Recall details

Ottawa, October 18, 2017 – Agropur Cooperative is recalling Agropur Import Collection brand firm ripened Comté cheese from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below.