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Taiwan – 23 suffer Salmonella poisoning at shaved ice restaurant in south Taiwan
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A shaved ice restaurant in Kaohsiung City has been ordered to suspend operations and pay a NT$300,000 (US$9,600) fine after 23 customers sought medical treatment for salmonella poisoning.
A woman surnamed Huang (黃) broke the news on PTT, saying that she and 12 family members went to a shaved ice shop on Liuhe Road on July 12, reported Liberty Times. After eating the shaved ice, 11 family members felt unwell and had symptoms including diarrhea, vomiting, and bloody stools, while her son was hospitalized for treatment.
On July 14, the Kaohsiung City Government Department of Health conducted an inspection of the premises and found that the floor was damaged and dirty and a trash can was not covered. The health department conducted on-site testing of the shaved ice toppings, shaved ice, and samples from the surfaces of the shaved ice equipment.
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Italy – ROBIOLA DI EROS PURE GOAT LATE CRUDO – STEC E.coli
Brand : LA CASERA SRL
Name : ROBIOLA DI EROS PURE GOAT LATE CRUDO
Reason for reporting : Recall due to microbiological risk
Date of publication : 19 July 2023
Documentation
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India – 32 Girl Students Are Seriously Ill Due To Food Poisoning, Many In Serious Condition
Hanamkonda/Hyderabad, July 17 (Maxim News): 32 girl students fell ill due to food poisoning in Bhattupalli SR Prime School of Khajipet Mandal of Hanumakonda district. the students fell ill on Sunday night July 16.
The students committed and had diarrhea immediately after eating chicken at night. As the condition of the students became alarming, the sick students were taken to the hospital, while 16 students are being treated at Father Colombo Hospital, 16 others are being treated at Jaya Hospital, and four of them seem to be in serious condition.
Some of the affected students are suffering from stomach pain. Some other students are being given breath on a ventilator. Parents are worried about their children getting food poisoning. More than half of the students have already vacated the SR Prime School hostel due to his incident. Many student unions are upset over this incident. (Maxim News)
Posted in Food Illness, Foodborne Illness, Illness
USA – FDA – Enforcement Reports – Hepatitis A
Product Description:
Organic Daybreak Blend Brand Name: Wawona Frozen Foods 4 lb. plastic bags – 10 bags per case Keep Frozen Item# 684779 UPC: 0 34742 07244 5 Sold by Costco
Reason for Recall:
Product may contain Hepatitis A
Product Quantity:
9,878 cases
Recall Number:
F-1231-2023
Code Information:
20082D04/BEST IF USED BY 09/23/2023, 20082D05/BEST IF USED BY 09/23/2023, 20082D06/BEST IF USED BY 09/23/2023, 20082D07/BEST IF USED BY 09/23/2023, 20082D08/BEST IF USED BY 09/23/2023, 20088D04/BEST IF USED BY 09/29/2023, 20088D05/BEST IF USED BY 09/29/2023, 20088D06/BEST IF USED BY 09/29/2023, 20088D07/BEST IF USED BY 09/29/2023, 20088D08/BEST IF USED BY 09/29/2023, more…
Classification:
Class I
Product Description:
Great Value Mixed Fruit Pineapple, Strawberries, Peaches and Mango. Item # 107355. Frozen, packed into flexible plastic bags. Net wt. 4lbs (64oz). UPC on retail bag: 0 78742 12423 0. A total of 6 sellable units (4lbs. each) are placed into a case for distribution to retailer. DISTRIBUTED BY: Walmart more…
Reason for Recall:
Potential contamination with Hepatitis A.
Product Quantity:
87,570 bags (4lb. per bag)
Recall Number:
F-1233-2023
Code Information:
Lot Codes: 4024205, 4025305, 4032305, 4033305, 4034305, 4035305. Best By Dates: 07/25/2024, 07/26/2024, 08/02/2024, 08/3/2024, 08/04/2024, and 08/5/2024.
Classification:
Class I
Product Description:
Great Value Mixed Fruit Pineapple, Strawberries, Peaches and Mango. Item # 107355. Frozen, packed into flexible plastic bags. Net wt. 4lbs (64oz). UPC on retail bag: 0 78742 12423 0. A total of 6 sellable units (4lbs. each) are placed into a case for distribution to retailer. DISTRIBUTED BY: Walmart more…
Reason for Recall:
Potential contamination with Hepatitis A.
Product Quantity:
87,570 bags (4lb. per bag)
Recall Number:
F-1233-2023
Code Information:
Lot Codes: 4024205, 4025305, 4032305, 4033305, 4034305, 4035305. Best By Dates: 07/25/2024, 07/26/2024, 08/02/2024, 08/3/2024, 08/04/2024, and 08/5/2024.
Classification:
Class I
Product Description:
Great Value Antioxidant Fruit Blend Strawberries, Blueberries, Raspberries, Pitted Dark Sweet Cherries and Pomegranate Arils. Item # 111097. Frozen, packed into flexible plastic bags. Net wt. 2lbs. 8oz. (40oz). UPC on retail bag: 0 78742 34615 1. A total of 6 sellable units (40oz each) are placed into a case more…
Reason for Recall:
Potential contamination with Hepatitis A.
Product Quantity:
5,694 bags (40oz. per bag)
Recall Number:
F-1234-2023
Code Information:
Lot Code: 4032305 Best By Date: 8/2/2024
Classification:
Class I
Product Description:
Rader Farms Organic Berry Trio Strawberry, Blackberry, Raspberry. Item # 105872. Frozen, packed into flexible plastic bags. Net wt. 3lbs. UPC on retail bag: 8 84038 85143 4. A total of 6 sellable units (3lbs. each) are placed into a case for distribution to retailer. DISTRIBUTED BY: Rader Farms Lynden, WA.
Reason for Recall:
Potential contamination with Hepatitis A.
Product Quantity:
74,376 bags (3lbs. per bag)
Recall Number:
F-1235-2023
Code Information:
Lot Codes: 4153205, 4283202, 4284202, 4058302, 4059302. Best By Dates: 12/02/2023, 04/10/2024, 04/11/2024, 08/28/2024, 08/29/2024.
Classification:
Class I
Product Description:
Reason for Recall:
Potential contamination with Hepatitis A.
Product Quantity:
62,380 bags (48oz. per bag)
Recall Number:
F-1236-2023
Code Information:
Lot Codes: 4224202, 4313202, 4314202, 4363202, 4364202, 4017302, 4018302, 4042306, 4043306, 4060306. Best By dates: 02/11/2024, 05/10/2024, 05/11/2024, 06/29/2024, 06/30/2024, 07/18/2024, 07/19/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/13/2024, 08/30/24
Classification:
Class I
Posted in food recall, Hepatitis A, Recall
Norway – Smoked salmon and trout suspected as the source of outbreaks of Listeriosis
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority is collaborating with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health , the Norwegian Veterinary Institute and relevant municipal supervisors to find the cause of the outbreak.
All four people, three women and one man, fell ill in June this year and have been admitted to hospital. All are now healthy or improving. They are aged 50-80 and live in Viken (2), Vestland and Oslo.
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority has interviewed the persons and obtained product samples which the Veterinary Institute has analyzed (vi.no). Three out of four people report having eaten either smoked salmon or smoked trout from Troll Salmon in the time before they became ill. The outbreak bacterium was found in two packs of smoked salmon from Troll Salmon . One of the people had the packages in the freezer.
– The Norwegian Food Safety Authority is in close dialogue with the business, which must ensure that they do not sell products that represent a possible health hazard for consumers. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority also monitors that the company carries out necessary investigations and implements sufficient measures in production, says Lindis Folkvord, section manager in the Norwegian Food Safety Authority’s biological food safety section.
Advice for vulnerable groups
Most people can eat foods containing the listeria bacteria without becoming seriously ill, but susceptible people tolerate less of the bacteria.
– It is a general advice that pregnant women, people with weakened immune systems and the elderly with a weakened general condition should eat fish and smoked fish that are as fresh as possible. This means that the product should be well within the best-before date, says Folkvord.
Other measures to reduce the risk of listeria bacteria are to store such products in a refrigerator at 4 degrees or colder, and to wash equipment and hands after handling risk products to reduce the risk of transfer of listeria bacteria to other products.
Risk product
Listeria is usually transmitted through food, especially refrigerated foods with a long shelf life that are eaten without heat treatment. Examples of such risk products are soft ripening cheeses and unpasteurized semi-hard cheeses, unpasteurized milk, smoked, raw and raw fish, some types of cut-up cooked meat spreads and raw meat.
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Canada – Delusional Sauce Co. brand Chili Garlic Confit recalled due to potential presence of dangerous bacteria – Clostridium botulinum
Product
Chili Garlic Confit
Issue
Food – Microbial Contamination – Clostridium botulinum
What to do
Do not consume, use, sell, serve, or distribute recalled products
Distribution
Ontario
Issue
The affected product is being recalled from the marketplace because it may permit the growth of Clostridium botulinum.
What you should do
- If you think you became sick from consuming a recalled product, contact your healthcare provider
- Check to see if you have recalled products
- Do not consume, serve, use, sell, or distribute recalled products
- Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the location where they were purchased
Food contaminated with Clostridium botulinum toxin may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms in adults can include facial paralysis or loss of facial expression, unreactive or fixed pupils, difficulty swallowing, drooping eyelids, blurred or double vision, difficulty speaking, including slurred speech, and a change in sound of voice, including hoarseness. Symptoms of foodborne botulism in children can include difficulty swallowing, slurred speech, generalized weakness and paralysis. In all cases, botulism does not cause a fever. In severe cases of illness, people may die.
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France – Goat cheese – STEC E.coli
Identification information of the recalled product
- Product category Feed
- Product subcategory Milk and dairy products
- Product brand name unbranded
- Model names or references Round Valencay Ste Maure de Touraine
- Identification of products
Batch Date 173 Best before date 08/22/2023 174 Best before date 08/23/2023 176 Best before date 08/25/2023 - Marketing start/end date From 06/24/2023 to 07/03/2023
- Storage temperature Product to be stored in the refrigerator
- Geographic area of sale Heugnes
- Distributors Earl Fromagerie Boisbourdin
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France – HERB CHIPOLATA – Salmonella
Identification information of the recalled product
- Product category Feed
- Product subcategory Meats
- Product brand name TRADITION & TERROIR
- Model names or references CHIPOLATA WITH HERBS 6 pieces ASSORTMENT OF NATURE CHIPOLATA WITH HERBS AND MERGUEZ PORK, BEEF, SHEEP
- Identification of products
GTIN Batch Date 2232772000000 231779006 Use-by date 07/16/2023 2415618000000 231779004 Use-by date 07/16/2023 - Packaging6-piece tray (CHIPOLATA WITH HERBS) Tray approximately 1kg (ASSORTMENT OF NATURAL CHIPOLATA WITH HERBS AND MERGUEZ PORK, BEEF, SHEEP)
- Marketing start/end date From 06/30/2023 to 07/14/2023
- Storage temperature Product to be stored in the refrigerator
- Health mark EN 33.550.010 EC
- Geographic area of sale Whole France
- Distributors Tazita Monoprix
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Catalonia – Information on cases of botulism
4 cases of botulism have been confirmed and 2 probable with a common link of consumption in the previous days of packaged potato omelet purchased from different supermarkets. The cases have occurred in several autonomous communities.
The public health services of the communities and autonomous cities are informed to strengthen early detection in the event of the appearance of new cases with suspicion of botulism should they occur.
The Spanish Food Safety Agency (AESAN) has transferred all the available information to the contact points of the autonomous communities so that they can carry out the relevant investigations in relation to the products that could have been consumed in some of the cases.
In at least three of the confirmed cases and one of the probable ones, the company that makes the tortillas is the same. To date, no evidence has been established, neither in the products nor in the processes, that relate cause and effect. However, investigations are continuing with the collaboration of the production company.
Investigations are being carried out in relation to the possibility that there is any product on the market that is not safe or if there are deviations in the processes of production, distribution, storage or transport that justify the existence of this risk.
It is public knowledge that some distribution chain, applying the precautionary principle and in the face of the lack of certainties, has decided to withdraw from sale the products to which the epidemiological surveys have pointed, while waiting for the investigations to progress.
In any case, we want to remind consumers of the importance, especially at this time of year due to the heat, of preserving food products at the storage temperatures indicated on the labeling and following the instructions for use indicated by the manufacturers, already which guarantee the safety of products for which an expiration date is established.
The case of packaged potato tortillas is particularly important, as one can get the false impression that they are like canned foods, which have thermal stability, and keeping them unrefrigerated at the current room temperature can lead to health problems after consumption
When new information becomes available in relation to this matter, this news will be updated.
Posted in Bacterial Toxin, Clostridium, Clostridium botulinum, Food Illness, Food Micro Blog, Food Microbiology, Food Microbiology Blog, Food Microbiology Research, Food Microbiology Testing, Food Poisoning, Food Toxin, Foodborne Illness, Illness, microbial contamination, Microbial growth, Microbiological Risk Assessment, Microbiology, Microbiology Investigations, Microbiology Risk, Poisoning
