Category Archives: Uncategorized

FDA

Hy-Vee, Inc., based in West Des Moines, Iowa, is voluntarily recalling several candy trays because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. The potential for contamination was brought to Hy-Vee’s attention when Palmer Candy Company announced a limited recall of certain chocolate products after it was informed by its supplier, Valley Milk Products LLC, that a milk powder ingredient used in a compound chocolate coating has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. The voluntary recall includes selected products produced between Oct. 20, 2016, and Dec. 9, 2016, and shipped by Palmer Candy Company to grocery, convenience store and wholesale customers nationwide for repackaging.

RASFF -aflatoxins (B1 = 30.1; Tot. = 37.7 µg/kg – ppb) and ochratoxin A (588 µg/kg – ppb) in dried figs from Turkey in Germany

RASFF -aflatoxins (B1 = 4.3 µg/kg – ppb) in groundnuts from China  in the Netherlands

RASFF- aflatoxins (B1 = 9.58; Tot. = 25.12 µg/kg – ppb) in roasted and chopped hazelnuts from Turkey in Germany

RASFF – aflatoxins (B1 = 30.1; Tot. = 37.7 µg/kg – ppb) and ochratoxin A (588 µg/kg – ppb) in dried figs from Turkey in Germany

RASFF – aflatoxins (B1 = 49.68; Tot. = 56.4 µg/kg – ppb) in roasted pistachios from Turkey in Germany

RASFF -aflatoxins (B1 = 4.9; Tot. = 5.7 µg/kg – ppb) in shelled groundnuts from Nigeria in the UK

RASFF – aflatoxins (B1 = 8.1; Tot. = 9.2 µg/kg – ppb) in peanut kernels from China in Bulgaria

RASFF – aflatoxins (B1 = 16; Tot. = 20 µg/kg – ppb) in groundnuts from the United States, via the United Kingdom in the Netherlands

RASFF – norovirus in live bivalve molluscs from France in France

RASFF – norovirus (genogroup l and ll detected in 2g hepatopancreas) in live oysters from Ireland in Italy

RASFF – norovirus (GII: 1153 /g) in live oysters (C.gigas) from Ireland in Ireland

RASFF – Listeria monocytogenes (<10 CFU/g) in chilled smoked salmon from the Netherlands, with raw material from Norway in Switzerland

RASFF – Cronobacter sakazakii (presence /10g) in goat milk powder from the Netherlands in Belgium

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /25g) in frozen poultry meat from Brazil in the Netherlands

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /25g) in frozen turkey meat (Meleagris gallopavo) from Brazil in the Netherlands

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /25g) in frozen boneless skinless spiced turkey thights from Brazil in the Netherlands

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /25g) in white hulled sesame seeds from India in Cyprus

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /25g) in desiccated coconut from Indonesia, via Poland in Estonia

RASFF – Salmonella infantis (presence /25g) in frozen turkey chicken doner kebab from the Netherlands in Estonia

RASFF – Salmonella typhimurium (presence /25g) in frozen poultry meat and neck skin from France

RASFF -Salmonella (presence /25g) in moringa leaf powder from Ghana in the UK

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /10g) in chilled pork rind from Spain in Italy

STV News

A cheese producer forced to withdraw its products after being linked to a fatal E Coli outbreak is campaigning to put some items back on the market.

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) said Errington Cheese’s Dunsyre Blue was the “likely cause” of the illness, which affected 20 people and led to the death of a three-year-old child last summer.

The agency implemented a blanket ban on the sale of the South Lanarkshire firm’s products in September.

The company, which disputes the evidence, was forced to lay off 12 members of staff following the ban.

It has now emerged the firm has written to South Lanarkshire Council to seek permission to put its Lanark Blue and Corra Linn products back on the market.

New Strait Times

MALACCA: Contaminated fried rice served at a school canteen here allegedly led to 17 students and a teacher being rushed to the Malacca Hospital for food poisoning this afternoon.

Ayer Keroh Fire and Rescue Department operations director Alip Dollah said three of his personnel and a medical assistant rushed to the school after receiving the report at 1.30pm. Three ambulances were dispatched to the scene to ferry victims to hospital.

When the New Straits Times arrived at the hospital, there was a blanket gag order in place. The students appeared visibly weakened by illness and had to be shuttled between the decontamination ward and the emergency ward on wheelchairs for treatment.

An elder brother of one of the victims, who declined to be named, claimed that the cause of the food poisoning was likely the fried rice served at the canteen.

Food Poisoning Bulletin 

An E. coli outbreak associated with Captain Al’s Steak & Shrimp restaurant in Gulfport, Mississippi has sickened dozens of people, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health. That restaurant is located at 11268 Lorraine Road. The Health Department closed the restaurant on January 3, 2017 after being informed that at least 50 people had been sickened after eating there.