A reminder campaign concerning two types of raw milk cheeses from a cheesery of the graindorge brand (which belongs to the lactalis group) and marketed by large signs was launched on Tuesday.
Le Monde with AFP
After Frozen pizzas of the Buitoni brand , contaminated by the Escherichia coli bacterium, the cases of salmonellosis detected in Chocolate products Kinder manufactured in Belgium and recalled by the Ferrero manufacturer, it’s cheese tower.
A reminder campaign concerning two types of raw milk cheeses from a cheesery of the graindorge brand (which belongs to the lactalis group) and marketed by major signs was launched on Tuesday, April 5, after the discovery of a Cheese containing the bacterium responsible for listeriosis, announced the government site conso.
It concerns “a few hundred cheeses,” said Bruno Lefèvre, the director Livarot’s cheese factory, who has produced them and belongs to Graindorge. These are COULOMMIERS and Normanville brand bribes and grained brand. Graindorge is a brand specialized in the purchase and transformation of raw milks, producing AOP cheeses and terroirs, owned since 2016 by Lactalis.
A control has highlighted “a very low presence of Listeria monocytogenes on a single cheese,” said Lefèvre. And, “in accordance with our quality procedures, we decided to apply the precautionary principle and to recall the entire lot made from milk collected in 4 of our milk producers” based in the country of trough, has he said.
Rare infection, but potentially fatal
These recalled cheeses are likely to contain listeria monocytogenes (agents responsible for listeriosis). Listeriosis, food infection, is rare – a few hundred cases per year in France – but once declared, it can be murderer: about a quarter of patients die. The incubation time can be up to eight weeks.
The cheeses concerned have been marketed in the whole of France since mid-March in the Supermarkets of Auchan, Leclerc, Casino, Carrefour, Intermarché, Cora, U system, but also Schiever (very present in the northeast) And grocery stores anti Gaspi. Another coulommiers marketed by Franprix and bearing the same batch number is the subject of a reminder under the same conditions.
The government site recommends reporting products to be refunded or destroyed. People who have consumed products and fevering, isolated or accompanied by headaches, and aches are invited to consult their doctor. Pregnant women, immunocompromised people and the elderly must be particularly attentive to these symptoms, is it specified.
The reminder procedure must end on April 19th. The identification number of the recalled lots is 250222LLI9 and the brand of safety or stamp is EN 14.371.001 EC, according to the site Recall.conso.gouv.fr.