QUESERIA CHIPILO INC. is announcing a recall of the following cheese products, all date codes up to and including September 26, 2010 – Fresco and Nov 25, 2010 – Oaxaca. Oaxaca String Cheese Queso Fresco The Cheese products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.  This is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and... [more]

Azteca Linda Corp. of Brooklyn, New York, is expanding the 8/24/10 recall of QUESO FRESCO (FRESH WHITE CHEESE) (exp. SEP 11 2010) to include expiration date SEP 12 2010.  In addition, the firm is recalling Queso El Azteca brand REQUESON (RICOTTA CHEESE) with expiration date SEP 19 2010 because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious... [more]

Listeria monocytogenes, a bacteria which causes Listeriosis foodborne illness, often causes food poisoning victims to suffer fever, muscle pain, and nausea or diarrhea. On occasion, the Listeria bacteria can spread to an individual’s nervous system. In these cases, Listeria will cause a headache, stiff neck, confusion, vertigo, or seizures. Raw foods, including unpasteurized milk can be a source... [more]

Morningland Dairy of Mountain View, Missouri, is recalling 68,957 pounds of cheese because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and also has the potential to be contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus. Morningland Dairy’s raw milk cheese is sold in the lower 48 states via mail order, retail stores, crop sharing associations, and direct delivery. The cheese is packaged in vacuum-sealed... [more]

Queseria Chipilo, Passaic, New Jersey is announcing to recall of the following cheese products, all date codes up to and including Sept. 26, 2010 Fresco and Nov. 25,2010 Oaxaca. Oaxaca String Cheese Queso Fresco Queso Fresco Hoja De Plátano The Cheese products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. This is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children,... [more]

Over the course of the last few weeks, Salmonella has been associated with everything from eggs to pistachios, alfalfa sprouts, milk, fruit juice and even mamey frozen pulp. Contaminated food items such as these can teach you a lot about the differences between different kinds of Salmonella bacteria as well as other forms of food poisoning. The recent egg recall which has been linked to Salmonella... [more]

Azteca Linda Corp. is recalling Queso Fresco (fresh white cheese) and Queso Hebra (fresh white string cheese) with an expiration date of September 11, 2010. The Rhode Island Department of Health Laboratory confirmed earlier this week that the Queso Fresco is contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Because the Queso Hebra was made on the same food processing equipment, it is possible that it is contaminated... [more]

Zemco Industries, a Buffalo, N.Y., establishment, is recalling approximately 380,000 pounds of deli meat products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. These products were distributed to delicatessens where they were further processed into sandwiches. The products subject to recall... [more]

The CDC posted an interesting chart on its website. The chart describes foodborne sicknesses linked to U.S. outbreaks for the year 2007. During 2007, there were a total of 21, 244 foodborne illnesses linked to an outbreak and eighteen deaths. According to the chart, 34% of these illness are related to some form of bacteria. Salmonella and Norovirus topped the chart. Of the eighteen reported deaths,... [more]

Yesterday, the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry posted a voluntary recall for ready to eat sausages and hog head cheese produced by a Prairieville, Louisiana company. Veron Foods, LLC voluntarily recalled 500,000 pounds of meat products due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Listeria monocytogenes is a bacteria which causes a food poisoning known as Listeriosis. Listeriosis... [more]