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Old Europe Cheese Brie and Camembert cheese recall expanded

Old Europe Cheese, Inc. is expanding the initial recall of their packaged Brie and Camembert cheeses because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to a Department of Defense All Food and Drug Activity message sent Sept. 30. An environmental audit of both their products and facilities revealed one positive test from a facility sample. None of the company’s products tested positive.

Listeria monocytogenes may cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, the frail or elderly, and those with weakened immune systems. Healthy adults may only suffer short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria infections may also cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. The illness caused by these bacteria can take up to 70 days to appear. Persons in the higher-risk categories who experience flu-like symptoms within two months after eating contaminated food should seek medical care and tell the health care provider about eating the contaminated food.

The Defense Commissary Agency has publicized this recall to all its stores, said Richard Stith, Chief, Public Health Division, DeCA headquarters at Fort Lee, Virginia. Whenever a commissary has recalled or withdrawn products in its inventory, they are immediately removed from store shelves.    

The following products with “Best By” dates from Sept. 28 to Dec. 14 are affected by this recall expansion:

  • Culinary Tour Plain Baked Brie, 8-ounce clamshell: UPC 011225005350
  • Culinary Tour Cranberry Baked Brie, 11-ounce clamshell: UPC 011225005367
  • La Bonne Vie Plain Baked Brie, 8-ounce clamshell: UPC 820581678814
  • La Bonne Vie Cranberry Baked Brie, 11-ounce clamshell: UPC 820581678821
  • Lidl Plain Baked Brie, 8-ounce clamshell: UPC 4056489151203
  • Lidl Cranberry Baked Brie, 11-ounce clamshell: UPC 4056489151203
  • Lidl Fig Baked Brie, 11-ounce clamshell: UPC 4056489310907
  • Primo Taglio Plain Baked Brie, 8-ounce clamshell: UPC 021130098460
  • Reny Picot Plain Baked Brie, 8-ounce clamshell: UPC 033421050088
  • Reny Picot Cranberry Baked Brie, 11-ounce clamshell: UPC 033421051115
  • Reny Picot Apple Baked Brie, 11-ounce clamshell: UPC 033421500811
  • Reny Picot Fig Baked Brie, 11-ounce clamshell: UPC 033421053119
  • St. Louis Brie Domestic Brie Wedge, 7-ounces: UPC 041563 263709
  • St. Louis Brie Domestic Cut Brie Wedge, 6-pound RW: UPC 041563 370018
  • St. Louis Brie, variable weight: UPC 21107100000
  • St. Louis Brie Pre-Cut Wedges, 16-ounces: UPC 00021565000000
  • St. Louis Brie Wheel, 16-ounces: UPC 00021171800000

 

The previous recall, also issued on Sept. 30, involved the following products with “Best By” dates from Sept. 28 to Dec. 14:

 

Customers should return the recalled product to the commissary of purchase for a full refund. There have been six cases of Listeriosis reported.

Questions about this recall should be directed to Old Europe Cheese at (269) 925-5003, extension 335, Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. ET.

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