Cheesemaker Gloggnitz recalled some of its products on Friday due to health risks from listeria. Three deaths could be related.
In particular, drinking yogurt, cream cheese and kajmak were recalled by the cheese factory. As the company said Friday, there is a potential health hazard — “due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.”
Identical Listeria strain
The recall is likely to have a momentous background: according to AGES, there is a suspicion of a cross-border outbreak of the disease with possible three deaths in the period 2020-2022. The Ministry of Health had commissioned AGES for the clarification. In the course of the routine cluster analysis, eight diseases occurring since 2020 were found to be traceable to an identical Listeria strain (L. monocytogenes SgIVb/ST1/CT6568).
measures started
The previous investigations point to the operation in Lower Austria. The competent Lower Austrian food supervisory authority has immediately taken appropriate measures: Products already supplied are recalled by the company, newly produced products may only be placed on the market after a negative report on Listeria has been obtained and after approval by the food regulator Authority.
All illnesses and deaths in Vienna
On Friday afternoon, the company announced on request that the listeria had been found in a restaurant in Vienna that was supplied by the cheese factory. Own monsters have been unremarkable so far. According to AGES spokesman Werner Windhager, all illnesses and deaths occurred in Vienna. The long period of research is due to the fact that the source of the disease listeria could only now be identified.
Source: Krone
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