Mushrooms recalled due to listeria

[roseofblack25]

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/200...ms-recall.html



Canada's food watchdog along with Ravine Mushroom Farms Inc. issued a recall of Fresh Obsessions brand Ready To Serve Pre-washed Sliced White Mushrooms for possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.

The recall affects 227-gram packages sold in Ontario with the UPC code 0 69200 00902 2 and lot code R12398.

No associated illnesses have been reported, the CFIA said.

Symptoms of listeriosis include:

* Vomiting.
* Nausea.
* Stomach cramps.
* Diarrhea.
* Severe headache.
* Constipation.
* Persistent fever.
* Stiff neck.
* Loss of balance.
* Convulsions.

People who eat foods contaminated with listeria may carry the bacteria and still not develop listeriosis. Those most vulnerable to developing the disease include the elderly, infants and patients with a compromised immune system.

Pregnant women who develop listeriosis in their first trimester are at risk of miscarriage, while women in the later stages of pregnancy are at risk of delivering a stillborn or acutely ill infant.

Health officials said Tuesday they expected few new cases in a separate listeriosis outbreak, linked with processed meat products from an Ontario Maple Leaf Foods plant.

The Public Health Agency of Canada says listeriosis is believed to have been an underlying or contributing cause in 12 deaths.

[ergo2]

don't you just love how our government protects us

thanks for posting this

[SavingKarina]

man, eating can be hazardous to your health soon! and I love eating!!!

[anisa]

personally I always thought it was gross to eat the pre-sliced mushroom that still have poop all over them.

I prefer to buy whole ones, clean them and slive them myself

[roseofblack25]

ya the only mushrooms I like are the whole white ones that you can buy then wash them slice them and eat them with dip mmmmmm

[Sally888]

Dont they wash the pre sliced ones?

Ours here say prewashed and presliced....

Ive bought them maybe once years ago.

I like to buy the cute lil baby ones....

there so darned cute I barely want to eat them (haha)

[anisa]

nu-uh, when you look at the pre-sliced ones, they have dirt on them (poop)
hehe.

they grow in manure, the stinkiest manure. when you drive by a mushroom farm, the whole area reeks.

[ilovemykids]

GOD!! We had mushrooms yesterday.
This thing is nuts!
Thanks for the info!

[roseofblack25]

we have a mushroom farm close to us we went on a tour of it when we were really little in school yep it reeks LOL

[Sally888]

we have a mushroom farm close to us we went on a tour of it when we were really little in school yep it reeks LOL

Hehe so im not the only one thats been on a mushroom factory tour.

Anisa, considering the ones here say prewashed and preslices id like to assume they are prewashed or it wouldnt be legal for them to say so.

but we get local brands here

[roseofblack25]

LOL nope you arent the only one...it was supposed to be educational for us but it was too noisy and smelly for my liking...idk why they would want to take a bunch of 7 or 8 year olds to a mushroom farm LOL

[Sally888]

It was disgusting when we went, big piles of poop everywhere lol!

[smb127]

and my mother wonders why I don't like them? LOL