FDA increases the costco retired salmon consumption

Food and medication administration (FDAfor its acronym in English) reclassified as class I the withdrawal for listeria risk of the products ACME Smoked Fish Corp, which includes the smoked salmon signature of Kirkland distributed to Costco In October.

It is an FDA update that implies that the highest risk level when the product subject to withdrawal is consumed by a “reasonable probability” and the risk of “serious adverse consequences for health or death”

The FDA reported that the classification update date is January 22, 2025, says Today.

Recall that the FDA reported in October that by risk of a pollution of Listeria monocytogenes, The company ACME Smoked Fish Corporation withdrew from the Costco stores, 111 Smoked salmon boxes Kirkland Signature, which were distributed in Florida.

How to recognize the product?

In a statement at the official FDA site, he reported that Salmon products They were distributed to the distribution center of Southeast of Costco, located in West Palm Beach, Florida, and the Costco Warehouse stores in Florida, between October 9 and October 13 of last year.

For better product location by consumers, they detailed that the Salmon comes in a 12 -ounce double package presentation, identified with UPC code 0 96619 25697 6 and lot No. 8512801270.

While the company indicated that “the smoked salmon Kirkland Signature is vacuum packaged in a plastic pack with black border, with a blue name that says” smoked salmon “and an illustration of a salmon fish in the front.”

Know the risks by Listeria

Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium responsible for Listeriosis is an infection that can be deadly for people with the weakened immune systemin person older, pregnant children and women.

Healthy people can also get sick and Present symptoms in a little time such as headache, abdominal, high fever, nausea, diarrhea and rigidity.

The call is to avoid the consumption of the product, discard or discard it in case they have in their possession some packaging of this type of salmon subject to withdrawal.

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