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A risk of food poisoning forced to recall more than 40 lots of cheeses sold in most large distributors, such as Leclerc, Auchan or Carrefour. (Illustration photo)
CONSUMPTION – A refrigerator verification is essential for many French people. The Government Site Recall Conloi CONSO launched this Tuesday, August 12, a massive reminder for around forty batch of cheeses sold in the trade on Tuesday, August 12, due to the suspicion of Listeria contamination.
This bacteria, which can be particularly dangerous in pregnant women, could be in various types of cheeses: camemberts, goats, gorgonzolas, bries … The prizes concerned are sold in most large distributors, such as Leclerc, Auchan or Carrefour.
Most of these products, like the three examples visible belowcome from the same company: the Chavegrand cheese dairy, located in Creuse, indicates consumer reminder.
Old production line
If one of these products has been ingested, the people concerned ” are invited to consult their attending physician by telling him this consumption ”. Especially if they present “Fever, isolated or accompanied by headache, and aches”.
Contacted by AFP, Chavegrand cheese dairy explains that all the products recalled, in June and August, were manufactured on an old production line, closed in early June and replaced by a new line, in an extension of the building. “There has been a very reinforced analysis plan, with several thousand analyzes, but we did not find (trace of Listeria) in the cheese dairy. We have no explanation yet ”said Guillaume Albert, consultant for the cheese dairy.
Listeriosis, caused by Listeria Monocytogenes, remains the second cause of mortality by food poisoning. Each year it provokes a few dozen deaths in France. “The problem for consumers is that, as usual, these reminders occur too late, when evil is done”deplores Foodwatch in a press release published this Tuesday.
For the consumer defense association, the cheese dairy would have “Had to take the hygiene measures which are essential and ensure that it did not sell products that expose consumers to a danger to their health”. Foodwatch reports that the cheese dairy had already been the subject of a similar reminder in June.
In its press release, Foodwatch also wonders “On the role of our control authorities”. “What did they do between June and August?” »»questions the association, at a time when reminders now concern several dozen products.
