Sky News reported that the UK recall of Kinder chocolate products was extended to include all those manufactured in Arlon, Belgium, regardless of their best-before date. European health officials have said that the salmonella outbreak linked to Kinder chocolate products is probably related to buttermilk used in a Belgian factory. The European Food Safety Authority and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they had matched the same salmonella strain currently infecting people to samples taken from a factory in Belgium in December 2021. The European authorities concluded that the buttermilk was identified as the contamination point. The products were distributed worldwide after negative salmonella testing. Ferrero acknowledged it is to be blamed for the delays created in disseminating the information. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said that 67 people in the UK were known to have been infected with salmonella in the outbreak linked to the treats. The majority affected are under five years old, the agency added.@ https://news.sky.com/story/kinder-salmonella-link-outbreak-suspected-to-be-related-to-buttermilk-used-in-belgian-factory-12588717
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A UK recall of Kinder chocolate products was extended on Friday to include all of those manufactured at the site in Belgium, regardless of their best-before date.
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Thousands of people have complained to the FDA that claimed to get sick from eating Lucky Charm cereal. Consumers complained on a consumer website, saying they have experienced nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea after eating Lucky Charms. The agency is investigating the complaints. General Mills, the producer of the cereal, is working with the FDA on the matter. The company’s internal investigation found no reason for illnesses due to the consumption of the product, and therefore, no recall was issued. Patrick Quade, the founder of the consumer website Iwaspoisoned.com, said that so far this year, his site has received nearly 2,500 reports from people around the country who said they got sick soon after eating Lucky Charms. The vast majority of the reports have come in over the past two weeks, and they amount to the most complaints the decade-old website has ever received for a single product, he said. Kristin Johnson, who lives in Lexington, Ky., said she fed Lucky Charms to her two-year-old daughter about a week ago, and her daughter got sick for a few days. “When she started feeling better, I gave her Lucky Charms because I thought that was something she would eat since it’s her favorite treat. And she got sick again,” Ms. Johnson said. @ https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/fda-probes-lucky-charms-possible-link-to-illnesses
Food and Drug Administration officials said they are examining reports from more than 100 consumers who told the agency that they got sick after eating Lucky Charms cereal recently.
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ARS scientists observed that E. coli O157:H7 infection outbreaks connected to romaine are more frequently associated with lettuce commercially grown and harvested at the end of the growing seasons. Between 1998 and 2019, the CDC recorded 36 outbreaks that traced back to lettuce. Most of these outbreaks involved romaine lettuce harvested in the fall on California Central Coast, such as in Salinas, and late winter in Southern California and Arizona. These two states are the major lettuce growing areas in the United States, with farm production valued at nearly $2.7 billion in 2021. One of the most significant findings of this study is that E. coli survived on average 5.6 times better in cold-stored packaged romaine harvested in the fall than on the same varieties harvested in late spring. The study showed that greater deterioration in the fall lettuce was associated with better pathogen survival. The results strongly indicate that fall-harvested romaine and the microbe communities it harbors have intrinsic characteristics that make them a better place for E. coli to survive in fresh-cut product. @ https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2022/fall-seasonal-effects-connected-to-e-coli-outbreaks-in-bagged-romaine/
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The CFIA reported it triggered a recall of various poppy seeds from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination. Companies that sold the contaminated poppy seeds include Oak Manor Organic, Sunnyside Natural Market, Distribution Horizon Nature, and Grainworks Inc. The recalled products have been sold in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick. There have been no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of these products. @ https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/various-poppy-seeds-recalled-due-salmonella?utm_source=r_listserv
