FAVV recalls Milcobel products due to possible listeria contamination, including “Bruges sandwich”

“The FASFC expects Milcobel to identify all affected products as soon as possible and to continue to inform consumers. The FASFC will ensure that the company takes its responsibilities to protect and inform consumers,” it said on Monday evening. FASFC. The Food Agency also calls on retail companies to remove the affected cheeses from the shelves as soon as possible.

This concerns, among other things, a 200 gram “Brugge sandwich” that is distributed by Colruyt and Makro, a number of products of the Latteria export cheese brand with an expiry date of 27 April and two other products that are sold by other companies under their own name.

“Milcobel takes food safety very seriously and has always acted quickly and decisively to exclude any risk for the consumer. Milcobel decided on this recall as an ultimate precaution in consultation with the FASFC. In this way we guarantee the reliability and quality of our products and of Milcobel as an organization”, says Milcobel’s CEO, Nils van Dam, in a press release.

Last week, the bacterium was discovered in one of Milcobel’s brine baths. Initially it was thought that no contaminated products had left the factory, but extra measures are now being taken for all safety. In the meantime, analyzes of products that have not been in the contaminated brine bath are still ongoing. In anticipation of these additional test results, Milcobel asks its customers not to offer part of the products from the Moorslede factory to the consumer for the next 72 hours.

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