Wayne Farms, LLC. (Decatur, Alabama) recalled approximately 585,030 pounds of a ready-to-eat (RTE) chicken breast fillet product that may be undercooked. The USDA/FSIS issued another recall as an extension of previous recalls to include more products. The RTE chicken breast fillet products were produced between February 9 and April 30, 2022. The products were shipped to distributors nationwide and further distributed to restaurants and retail locations. The retail locations are in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. The problem was discovered when the firm received a customer complaint that the RTE chicken product appeared to be undercooked. There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to the consumption of these products. @ https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/wayne-farms-llc-recalls-ready-eat-chicken-breast-fillet-products-may-be-0
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On April 27, WHO published a report on the monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to Ferraro Belgium chocolate. It reported that on March 27, 2022, the United Kingdom notified WHO of a cluster of cases with monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium sequence type 34 infection. Investigations linked the outbreak to chocolate produced in Belgium, distributed to at least 113 countries. A global alert was released by INFOSAN on April 10, initiating a global product recall. To date, 151 genetically related cases suspected to be linked to the consumption of the implicated chocolate products have been reported from 11 countries. Monophasic S. Typhimurium matching the human outbreak cases was identified in buttermilk tanks at the Ferrero Corporate plant in Arlon, Belgium, in December 2021 and January 2022. After implementing hygiene measures and negative Salmonella testing, the implicated products (all Kinder products manufactured at the implicated facility (Arlon), including Kinder Surprise, Kinder Mini Eggs, Kinder Surprise Maxi 100g, and Kinder Schoko-Bons) were distributed across Europe and globally. As of April 25, 2022, a total of 151 genetically related cases of S. Typhimurium suspected to be linked to the consumption of the implicated chocolate products have been reported from 11 countries, including Belgium (26), France (25), Germany (10), Ireland (15), Luxembourg (1 ), the Netherlands (2), Norway (1), Spain (1), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (65) and the United States of America (1). Children under 10 years of age (n=134; 89%) were disproportionately affected. @ https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON369
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The Ministry of Health of Israel published a series of flaws in how the Elite Nof Hagalil factory operated, which likely led to the introduction of salmonella. So far, there are 21 cases of suspected salmonella infections and six hospitalizations from the Strauss factory in Nof Hagalil. As a result, the Israeli health ministry closed the factory for 3 months. The Ministry of Health has published a list of flaws in the factory operation, which likely led to the introduction of salmonella. Pigeons had entered the factory several months ago and could have been the source of the contamination. The Ministry of Health found that the factory’s quality control team had undergone changes over the past year, and there was temporarily no food safety manager at the factory. Most significantly, salmonella contamination seems widespread within the factory, with 30 samples positive for salmonella out of 300 taken. The affair had led to one of the most extensive product recalls which has ever taken place in Israel, encompassing all products of the factory affected: Elite chocolate, Elite cakes, Elite waffles, Energy snack bars, Energy chocolate covered rice crackers, chewing gum, and soft sweets, with all expiry dates. @ https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-21-suspected-salmonella-infections-from-strauss-plant-1001410757
