Ewing Seafoods Recalls Its Organic Smoked Salmon Due To Contamination With Listeria Monocytogenes
Recall Summary Ewing Seafoods is recalling Organic Smoked Salmon products sold in the United Kingdom because they may contain Listeria monocytogenes bacteria. This bacterium can cause illness with symptoms similar to flu, including fever, muscle aches, chills, nausea, and diarrhea, though it can occasionally lead to more serious complications like meningitis, particularly in people over 65, pregnant women, infants under one month old, and those with weakened immune systems.
- Recalling firm
- Ewing Seafoods
- Product
- Products: Organic Smoked Salmon.
- Reason
- The presence of Listeria monocytogenes in the products listed above. Symptoms caused by this organism can be similar to flu and include high temperature, muscle ache or pain, chills, feeling or being sick and diarrhoea. However, in rare cases, the infection can be more severe, causing serious complications, such as meningitis. Some people are more vulnerable to listeria infections, including those over 65 years of age, pregnant women and their unborn babies, babies less than one month old and people with weakened immune systems.
- Classification
- Class I
- Category
- food recall
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Agency
- UK Food Standards Agency
- Recall date
- 2018-08-18
- Status
- Ongoing
- Distribution
- United Kingdom
Official recall notice from UK Food Standards Agency
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