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Re-labeling worsens food safety confusion

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What’s in a label?

Not much, and it’s been shown to be a lousy vehicle for food information, but in the absence of any food safety marketing, it’s one of the only tools available.

Dr. Richard Schabas, Medical Officer of Health for Hastings and Prince Edward (that’s in Ontario, Canada) is calling for federal OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAfood inspection changes following a local case of listeriosis this summer that was caused by blue cheese.

Public health officials say the Belleville resident, who went to hospital, became ill after eating some blue cheese purchased at Bibs Wholesale Meats.

Schabas says the store owner had changed the label on the cheese and purchasers did not recognize a recall of the original label, since the cheese wasn’t marked as “re-labelled.”

Schabas met with officials of the Canadian Food Inspection agency this week and is writing to the federal government calling for a requirement that re-labelled products be identified as such.

Ontario resident struck with listeriosis linked to blue cheese

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A Belleville, Ontario, resident is in hospital after eating some bad cheese from a local business.

Wayne Tucker, director of communicable disease control/tobacco control at the Hastings Prince Edward Counties Health Unit, said the person is ill with listeriosis following the OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAconsumption of blue cheese purchased from Bibs Wholesale Meats in July.


”There is a small quantity of this blue cheese product that may have been sold to others in the community prior to July 30. Anyone who purchased blue cheese from Bibs Wholesale Meats prior to July 30 is asked to return the cheese to Bibs Wholesale Meats or dispose of the product.” he said.  “If anyone has consumed blue cheese purchased from Bibs Wholesale Meats prior to July 30 and is now ill, they should see their health care provider to rule out Listeriosis.”