Urgent recall for mushrooms over fears they can cause ‘fatal infections’

Several types of mushrooms have been recalled in the US because they could be contaminated with bacteria that could cause deadly infections.

Enoki mushrooms and a few kinds of sliced mushrooms sold in three states could be tainted with Listeria monocytogenes.

LLK Trading Inc on Sunday recalled 200-gram packages of its Needle Mushrooms, also known as Enoki mushrooms, that were sent to Bally Produce Corp in Maspeth, New York, and sold to Datang Supermarket Inc.

They are in plastic packaging that is clear on the top and blue at the bottom.

The nation’s agency responsible for protecting the public health found listeria after doing routine testing of some packages. Product sales have stopped as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the company investigate how the contamination started.

There have not been any reports of customers becoming sick from eating the Enoki mushrooms, according to the announcement published by the FDA.

Customers should not eat them and return them for a full refund. Anyone with questions is urged to contact the company, which is based in Linden, New Jersey.

And on Friday, Wiet Peeters Farm Products Limited recalled its 227-gram packages of Aunt Mid’s Fresh Sliced Mushrooms and Peeters Mushroom Farm Cremini Sliced Mushrooms, and 10-pound cardboard packages of Peeters Mushroom Farm Thick Slice Mushrooms.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency inspectors discovered listeria in the Fresh Sliced Mushrooms packages while testing the item, according to the FDA announcement. The two other products were manufactured on the same line.

The company based in Charing Cross Ontario, Canada, distributed the mushrooms to Michigan and Ohio. There have not been reports of people becoming ill, and customers with questions should contact Wiet Peeters Farm Products.

Listeria monocytogenes is ‘an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems’, according to the FDA.

It can cause pregnant women to have miscarriages or stillbirths. Healthy people can experience symptoms including diarrhoea, strong headaches, high fever, abdominal pain, nausea and stiffness.

The recalls come a couple of weeks after pre-made salads sold in eight US stated were recalled because they could contain cucumbers with salmonella.

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