The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a warning and reported the voluntary recall of frankfurters and wieners manufactured by Maple Leaf Foods, the company whose Listeria-tainted meat products in 2008 purportedly sickened thousands across Canada and were apparently ruled a “contributing cause” in the deaths of 22. According to the agency, the processed meat products now at issue “may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.” While no reported illnesses have been associated with the products’ consumption, the “potential problem” was identified “as a result of the new mandatory testing and reporting requirements placed on industry in February 2009.” Details about the settlement Maple Leaf reached in litigation arising from the 2008 outbreak appear in issue 303 of this Update. See
Canadian Food Inspection Agency Health Hazard Alert, August 3, 3009.

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