The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that George’s Prepared Foods, from Caryville, Tennessee recalled approximately 6,444 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) pork sausage patty and turkey sausage patty products that may be contaminated with Salmonella. The items were produced on April 19, 2019, April 27, 2019, May 7, 2019, and May 9, 2019. The recalled products are 24.92-oz. Packages containing “Great Value Fully Cooked Original Breakfast Turkey Patties” with a use-by date of 10/24/19; and 35.6-oz. Packages containing “Family Size Great Value Fully Cooked Original Pork Sausage Patties” with a use-by date of 11/03/19 or use-by date 11/05/19. These items were shipped to retail locations nationwide. The problem was discovered when the firm notified FSIS that the firm’s third-party cold storage facility had inadvertently shipped the ready-to-eat products to commerce. There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products. @ https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2019/recall-102-2019-release
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George’s Prepared Foods, a Caryville, Tenn. establishment, is recalling approximately 6,444 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) pork sausage patty and turkey sausage patty products that may be contaminated with Salmonella.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that Pride of Florida, from Raiford, Florida recalled approximately 64,797 pounds of raw beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The raw ground beef items were produced on various dates from Sept. 23, 2019, to Oct. 10, 2019. The recalled products were shipped to commercial distributors and a cold storage warehouse in Florida. The problem was discovered when the company was notified by their third-party laboratory that a sample was positive for E. coli O157:H7, but the products associated with the sample had already been shipped into commerce. There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products. @ https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2019/recall-101-2019-release
Pride of Florida, a Raiford, Fla. establishment, is recalling approximately 64,797 pounds of raw beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
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Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a highly heterogeneous species. Researchers from China reported (Nature communications volume 10, Article number: 4283 (2019)) the detection of a highly virulent new form of pathogenic Listeria monocytogenes from sheep listeriosis outbreaks that represent a hybrid sub-lineage of the major lineage II (HSL-II) and serotype 4h. HSL-II. This new strain exhibit higher organ colonization capacity than other Listeria strains. The isolates harbor both the Lm Pathogenicity Island (LIPI)-1 and a truncated LIPI-2 locus, encoding sphingomyelinase (SmcL), a virulence factor required for invasion and bacterial translocation from the gut. Multi-locus sequence type (MLST) analysis revealed three isolates are members of an unidentified sequence type (ST) and clonal complex (CC). The discovery of isolates harboring pan-species virulence genes of the genus Listeria warrants global efforts to identify further hypervirulent lineages of Lm. @ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12072-1/
Listeria monocytogenes isolates are highly heterogeneous and exhibit different levels of virulence. Here, the authors identify hypervirulent isolates that represent a hybrid sub-lineage of the major lineage II harbouring virulence factors from Listeria ivanovii and wall teichoic acids found in major lineage I.
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency notified The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) that several shipments of beef implicated in a series of recalls have been exported to the U.S. and might be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. As a result FSIS announced a public health alert for raw non-intact beef products derived from imported beef from Ontario, Canada that has been recalled by Ryding-Regency Meat Packers, Ltd. The products that are part of the Canadian recall and were distributed to institutions and retailers in Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. FSIS has identified that imported beef manufacturing trimmings produced on May 27 and 30, 2019 that are subject to recall were used in the U.S. to produce other raw non-intact beef products distributed for retail sale. @ https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/newsroom/news-releases-statements-and-transcripts/news-release-archives-by-year/archive/2019/pha-101619-01
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for raw non-intact beef products derived from imported beef from Ontario, Canada that has been recalled by Ryding-Regency Meat Packers, Ltd. because it may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.