URGENT alert Re Houmous products

[AdrianUK]

If you live in the UK and have bought houmous in the last week or so then check this list and your fridge right now to check you are not at risk of salmonella. Salmonella is potentially very serious even to people with an intact immune system. To us it could be life threatening.

Here is the list:

food.gov.uk/news-alerts/ale...

There has been a product recall today (4 November 2019) in the UK for many brands of supermarket houmous. It is specific to one manufacturer and to certain batches in terms of use by dates. but that manufacture makes houmous for several different supermarkets.

This does raise the issues of how much at the mercy we are of manufacturers of processed fresh food. In general it does make one wary of buying food that has seen the inside of a factory. Having said that of course if we were to make our own houmous for example, we might introduce our own contamination.

It is also possible to sign up for the alert system on the UK governments food website to be alerted if more foods get withdrawn.

[Root65]

Thanks for this, feeling fragile from treatment, the last thing I need is food poisoning. I have signed up for alerts.

[RitaBa]

How worrying!

That is a pretty long list attached of the various retailers & products.

Although there is no egg / dairy / cheese in Houmous so where does the risk of Salmonella come from?

No more shop bought Houmous for me

[mrsjsmith in reply to RitaBa]

Rita it’s so easy to make and much nicer !

C x

[RitaBa in reply to mrsjsmith]

Must try home made 👍🏼.

[Red49]

Thanks Adrian. We just had a recall of several different kinds of fresh packaged vegetables and a sweet kale blend salad mix in Canada in one of our large Grocery Chains for Listeria. It's scary if you find out after you have already consumed it. Seems to happen frequently doesn't it. I have been grade four Neutropenic for the past two weeks nothing packaged and everything cooked well.

[MystyUK]

Thank you!

[HappyCatUK]

Many thanks for this Adrian.

[Hazel33]

Thanks for the info Adrian. I have just thrown out the M&S Houmous, even though it’s not on the list. We have to be so careful.

[GPip]

Thanks Adrian. If I’d been doing our shopping I would probably have hummus in the fridge. It’s made me think that that might be the source of three of our grandchildren’s recent ill health. Very scary how easy it is to pick up some nasty bugs.

How was your weekend away at the ‘retreat ‘?

[sue2412]

Thanks for the information. That’s a nuisance as hummus is one of the few food products I’m enjoying at the moment. sue