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Vita Nova Salmon Recall Due to Possible Listeria Contamination

By Pritzker | Ruohonen

Vita Food Products, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois has notified the public that twelve individual packages of Vita Nova Salmon, were sold at Kroger stores in Houston, Texas on or after July 22 of this year may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

In addition, 192 individual packages of this same product have either possibly been sold or are being offered for sale at various grocery stores in the Avenol, New Jersey metropolitan area.

The product that is the subject of this public announcement and recall are packages (deep dark blue in color) of smoked salmon that bear the Vita logo in the upper left corner on the part of the packaging that is immediately visible to the consumer. Each package contains 4-10 bacon-style slices (total 3 oz.) of smoked salmon; the slices are contained in a vacuum pack within a box that is 4" wide by 7.5 " in length by 1/2 " in thickness. IMPORTANT: The Code Date of 11/16/08 198 is on the left end flap of each package. This announcement and recall only applies to packages that bear that CODE DATE.

According to the Vita Food Products press release, "To date, no confirmed illnesses or complaints have been reported by customers." Because the incubation period for Listeria is generally 3 weeks and can be as long as 70 days, no one would have been sickened yet. Everyone who ate some of the Salmon should watch for Listeria symptoms. 

Pregnant women who consumed any of the Vita Nova Salmon in question should watch for mild, flu-like symptoms. Pregnant women who contract Listeria infections usually do not become seriously ill, but they often have miscarriages, still births and early deliveries. Read Listeria miscarriage information.

Full post as published by Food Poisoning Law Blog on July 28, 2008 (boomark / email).