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Recall Alert: 286,000 pounds of deli meat for listeria!

gourmet boutique luncheon meats
Gourmet Boutique has issued a recall of 286,000 lbs of deli luncheon meat for possible contamination by listeria. The meats were used in sandwich wraps and other ready-to-eat products. The USDA has classified this recall as Class I, "reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death," or what I would call "pretty damn serious."

The list of potentially affected wraps and other ready-to-eat products from the company are listed here.

[via: Consumerist]

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Filed Under: Health & Medical, Food News, Ingredients
Tags: beef, deli meat, food safety, FoodSafety, listeria, lunch meat, recalls

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Dan

5-05-2008 @3:55PM Dan said... Given the nature of cold food *not be heated prior to eating* I am always surprised these types of things do not happen more often--particularly in grocery store salad assembly where they are pulling together a bunch of ingredients from a variety of sources.
Listeria is a pretty serious micro-organism...

"Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium commonly found in soil, stream water, sewage, plants, and food.[1] Each bacterium is Gram-positive and rod-shaped. Listeria are known to be the bacteria responsible for listeriosis, a rare but lethal food-borne infection that has a devastating mortality rate of 25%[2](Salmonella, in comparison, has a less than 1% mortality rate[3]). They are incredibly hardy and able to grow in temperatures ranging from 4°C (39°F), the temperature of a refrigerator, to 37°C (99°F), the body's internal temperature[1]."

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeria
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