The camemberts concerned are packaged in packaging of 250 grams and bear the minimum durability date of 08/13/2025. They were marketed from 06/26/2025 to 12/08/2025 included in Comarché, Colruyt Best Price, Okay and Okay City stores.
Customers who bought this product are invited not to consume it and bring it back to stores, where they will be reimbursed. Meanwhile, all the stores have removed the products concerned from the shelves.
The “goat log” product from the Fleur de Pré brand has also been recalled by AFSCA for the same reasons. The products concerned are packaged in packages of 180 grams, bear the barcode 3606520602921 and a minimum durability date between 07/29 and 19/08/2025. They were marketed in various points of sale in the country.
Two dead in France
Listeria, suspected of having caused two dead in France following the consumption of contaminated cheeses and produced by the same cheese dairy, is one of the main causes of fatal food poisoning.
The health authorities have identified 21 cases of listeriosis, including two deaths, which could present a “possible link” with the consumption of cheeses with pasteurized milk from the Chavegrand cheese dairy, the latter having been the subject of a rare -scale recall.
What is Listeria?
The Listeria Monocytogenes bacteria infection is the second cause of food poisoning with, in France, a few dozen deaths per year. Only salmonella, also bacteria, cause more fatal poisoning: several hundred each year.
In its so -called “invasive” form, listeriosis is particularly murderous: a quarter of patients, about, die, for example because of neurological complications like meningitis.
Incubation generally lasts one or two weeks, but can go up to almost three months, and pregnant women are particularly threatened, with twenty times more risk of developing this infection than the rest of the population.
Like salmonellosis, listeriosis is treated in antibiotics. This distinguishes them from another family of emblematic bacteria of food infections, Escherichia coli: these – in their dangerous forms, a large number being harmless – cause less serious poisoning than Listeria and Salmonella but they are more difficult to treat, because antibiotics are helpless.
Another common point between salmonella and Listeria, it is eliminated by cooking and it is therefore found in raw or poorly cooked foods: meats, dairy products, vegetables and fresh fruit …
But it also has its specificities. While the cold slows the development of salmonella, this is not the case for Listeria which can reproduce in large numbers in a refrigerator.
Listeriosis is therefore often linked to “foods that can be kept for a long time in refrigerated conditions”, summarizes the World Health Organization (WHO).