Personal Injury Law

Bacon Bits With Listeria Being Recalled After Customer Testing

By Marler Clark

Patrick Cudahy, a Cudahy, Wisc., firm, is recalling approximately 3,590 pounds of bacon bit products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).  Its the first listeria recall of 2009.

The tainted bacon bit products were produced on Nov. 13, 2008, and distributed to restaurant and institutional establishments in California, Colorado, Florida, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin.

The problem was discovered through in-house testing by an establishment that received the product. (Wow! That's a restaurant or institutional establishment that knows how to keep its shields up!  Good job whoever you are!)

No illnesses have yet been associated with the recalled products.  Those are:

• 10-pound cases of "Golden Crisp APPLEWOOD SMOKED PRECOOKED BACON TOPPINGS." The products bear the establishment number "EST. 28" inside the USDA mark of inspection as well as a printed Julian date of "8318."
• 10-pound cases of "John Morrell APPLEWOOD SMOKED PRECOOKED BACON TOPPINGS." The products bear the establishment number "EST. 28" inside the USDA mark of inspection as well as a printed Julian date of "8318."

Check out more from FSIS here.

Full post as published by Listeria Blog on January 04, 2009 (boomark / email).