Personal Injury Law

CONSUMER ALERT-VARIOUS RECALLS-August 17, 2007

By Marler Clark

Ocean King Enterprises is recalling Ready-to-Eat Seafood Dips. The company says the dips are potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogens. The organism can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail and elderly people.

Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

Products were distributed through the following A&P warehouses: A&P (C&S) Hatfield in Hatfield, MA; A&P (C&S) Baltimore in North East, MD; and A&P (C&S) Woodbridge in Woodbridge, NJ. Products will have reached consumers through retail stores from warehouse distribution.

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Full post as published by Listeria Blog on August 21, 2007 (boomark / email).