Another alert issued after recall of seven salad products over listeria contamination

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6 days ago

Seven types of spinach and mixed leaves products have been recalled after the detection of Listeria monocytogenes.
Last week, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said its National Outbreak Team was investigating the outbreak, which has resulted in one death and nine further cases identified.
The bacteria infection listeriosis was linked to a precautionary recall of ready-to-eat meals, with salad and spinach products joining the recall list over the weekend. Seven types of spinach and mixed leaves products have been recalled after the detection of Listeria monocytogenes. Pic: FSAI
The products are from the McCormack Family Farms, with retailers urged to remove the implicated products from sale, and display recall notices at point-of-sale.
The implicated products inlcude McCormack Family Farms Energise Super Mix; McCorkmack Family Farms Irish Spinach Leaves; McCormack Family Farms Mixed Leaves; McCormack Family Farms Baby Leaves; Tesco Mild Spinach and Egan's Irish Baby Spinach.
Wholesalers and distributors are requested to contact their affected customers and recall the products and provide a point-of-sale recall notice to their retailer customers while caterers are urged not to use the implicated products.
Last week, a person died after contracting the rare bacterial infection called listeriosis amid an 'extensive' outbreak of listeria. The products are from the McCormack Family Farms, with retailers urged to remove the implicated products from sale, and display recall notices at point-of-sale. Pic: FSAI
Listeriosis is a sickness contracted by eating contaminated food and can cause mild flu-like symptoms, nause, vomiting and/or diarrhoea.
Serious infections are very uncommon and rarely diagnosed in healthy children and adults.
Those most at risk are pregnant women, babies and those with weakened immune systems including the elderly. Listeriosis is a sickness contracted by eating contaminated food and can cause mild flu-like symptoms, nause, vomiting and/or diarrhoea. Pic: FSAI
The incubation period, the period between initial infections and symptosm appearing, is three weeks on average but can take up to 70 days.
The prepared meals and side dishes were produced by Ballymaguire Foods and sold at Tesco, SuperValu, Centra and Aldi.
Among the meals recalled included cottage pies, lasagnas, pasta bakes, curries and potato side dishes.
The FSAI and HSE confirmed a national outbreak control team was investigating the outbreak, adding that the recall of ready-to-heat meals was a 'voluntary precautionary' recall.
They said: 'The HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has been notified of and is investigating the death of an adult with confirmed listeriosis. To ensure medical confidentiality, no further information on this patient can be disclosed.
'The national outbreak control team is chaired by the HSE National Health Protection Office and comprises the HSE National Environmental Health Service, the HSE Regional Public Health Services, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, the National Salmonella, Shigella and Listeria Reference Laboratory and the National Reference Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.'