The Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition has issued a health alert after detecting Listeria monocytogenes in several batches of cured meats made in Spain. The Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) has issued a health alert over the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in cured meats of the Vicente López brand. According to AESAN, «there is no record in Spain of any reported case associated with this alert».
Product details
The details of the affected product are as follows:
Product name: pig’s head – cooked and fried pork.
Brand: Vicente López.
Batch numbers: 22501 and 22502.
⚠️ Alerta por presencia de Listeria monocytogenes en cabeza de cerdo de la marca Vicente López. Ver detalles del producto implicado⬇️.
🚫 No consumir
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— AESAN (@AESAN_gob_es) 1 April 2022
The food safety agency has stated that the cured meats were distributed in Madrid, Galicia, the Basque Country, Aragón, Asturias and Castilla y León. Investigations are also continuing, so «it cannot be ruled out that there may have been redistribution to other autonomous communities».
AESAN has recommended not consuming the products concerned and returning them to the point of sale so they can be withdrawn from the market. Anyone who has eaten the affected batches and has symptoms consistent with listeriosis, such as fever, headache, vomiting or diarrhoea, is advised by the agency to go to a health centre.
Listeria in Catalan cured meats
Last year, the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition published another food alert after listeria was detected in several batches of cured meats from Catalonia made by Embotits D’Oix.
At the beginning of March this year, the Andalusian Regional Ministry of Health and Families issued a new notice over the presence of the same bacterium in fresh, semi-cured and cured goat’s and mixed-milk cheese from the company Hermanos Vargas Jiménez S.L. in the town of Álora.
The company immediately activated its protocol to withdraw the product, which had been distributed in Estepona, Alhaurín de la Torre, Mijas, Cártama, Álora, Málaga, Manilva and Ronda.
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