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The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) today (November 4) advised people not to eat a batch of "Loch Fyne" prepacked ready-to-eat smoked salmon products which might have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The trade should stop selling the concerned products.
A CFS spokesman said that two samples of smoked salmon from the same consignment taken from an importer were found to have Listeria monocytogenes. The whole consignment weighed about 22 kilogrammes in total. Products and packing details are as follows:
Brand name:
Loch Fyne
Product name:
Loch Fyne Classic Smoked Salmon 100 grammes
Loch Fyne Classic Smoked Salmon 200 grammes
Loch Fyne Scottish Atlantic Salmon 1.23 kilogrammes
Loch Fyne Organic Smoked Salmon 100 grammes
Loch Fyne Whisky Salmon 200 grammes
Loch Fyne Gravadlax Marinated Scottish Salmon 100 grammes
Best before date: November 18, 2010
Place of origin: Scotland of the United Kingdom (UK)
"Investigations revealed that the affected products had been on sale in the following four retailers, including Jusco at Whampoa Garden in Hung Hom, the Country store at Country Club of American Club Hong Kong on Tai Tam Road on Hong Kong Island, Piu Kee shop at Sha Tin Market and OLIVER'S DELICATESSEN at Prince's Building in Central. The shops have already stopped selling the affected products," the spokesman said.
He advised consumers who had bought the affected products not to consume them and to seek medical advice if they developed symptoms after eating the products concerned.
Symptoms after exposure to Listeria monocytogenes may include fever, headache, vomiting and diarrhoea. While healthy individuals rarely develop symptoms, the effects on pregnant women, newborns, the elderly and people with lowered immunity could be severe and could include miscarriage and meningitis.
"The CFS has informed the UK authorities of the incident. We have also alerted the trade and will continue to monitor the situation," the spokesman said.
Ends/Thursday, November 4, 2010
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