The Ministry of Health orders the immediate food recall for a product from all supermarkets and food shops for Listeria risk.
The Ministry of Health issued a communication regarding a food recall. The food to which the Authority has affixed the seals, arranging for immediate withdrawal from the shelves of supermarkets and grocery stores is salmon. Following some checks, the risk of encountering the Listeria Monocytogenes bacterium emerged.
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The brand name of this product is Wild Smoked Sockeye Salmon. There are also other useful elements to identify this article, which the Ministry of Health underlines, absolutely must not be eaten. The Ministry communicates the lot number: 19152282. And the expiry date or minimum conservation term, which coincides with 16/10/2020. The RASFF, the European Rapid Alert System for the Safety of Food and Feed, also spoke about this food recall. The product units of the recalled batch are marketed in pieces weighing 100 grams each.
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Food recall, useful details to recognize the product
The manufacturer is Polar Salmon Hjerting Laks A / S, with the plant located in Esbjerg, Denmark. For all those who know they have this product at home, the advice is to immediately bring it back to the point of sale where the purchase took place. This will give the right to have the place to proceed with a refund or with a replacement with another item, paying the relative difference. In emergency situations like this it is not necessary to show the reference receipt. As for Listeria Monocytogenes, the consumption of food contaminated by the presence of the related bacterium can lead to health problems.
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Among which also food infections of such severity as to be able to require hospitalization. Usually known symptoms consist of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and also muscle aches and fever.
