Manda Packing expands recall of cooked meat products over Listeria contamination

Manda Packing Company, based in Louisiana, US, has expanded its recall to include approximately 468,000lbs of roast beef, ham, turkey breast, tasso pork, ham shanks, hog head cheese, corned beef, and pastrami over fears that the products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The expanded recall is in addition to products recalled earlier this month, when the company announced that it was withdrawing 20,166lbs of cooked roast beef deli meat over Listeria monocytogenes contamination concerns.

The latest recall affects products that were manufactured at Manda Packing’s Baker, Louisiana facility, with a ‘Sell by’ date of 13 May – 22 June 2013.

These products bear the establishment number ‘EST. 8746A’ inside the USDA mark of inspection, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

The products being recalled are Manda Supreme Roast Beef, Four Star Cajun Roast Beef, Four Star Roast Beef, Cajun Prize Roast Beef, Manda Supreme Natural Roast Beef, Manda Natural Roast Beef, Manda New Orleans Style Roast Beef, Manda Whole Wet Pack Roast Beef, Manda Roast Beef, S&W Roast Beef, LA Pride Roast Beef, Leblancs Roast Beef, Thompsons Roast Beef, Christiana Roast Beef, Manda Italian Roast Beef, Deli Pride Roast Beef, Chef Master Roast Beef, Scariano Roast Beef, Marques Roast Beef and Cajun Rite Roast Beef.

The recall also includes Manda Ham, Cajun Prize Ham, Leblancs Ham, Four Star Ham, Christiana Ham, S&W Ham, Thompsons Ham, Chef Master Ham, Rouses Ham, Leblancs Turkey Breast, Manda Turkey Breast, Cajun Prize Turkey Breast and Christiana Turkey Breast. Also Manda Corned Beef, Four Star Corned Beef, Manda Pastrami, Four Star Pastrami, Manda Hog Head Cheese, S&W Hog Head Cheese, Rouses Hog Head Cheese, Big Cajun Hog Head Cheese, Manda Tasso, Diversified Tasso, Rouses Tasso and Manda Ham Shanks.

The products may have been sliced at retail delis, and if so, will not feature this packaging information.

The products were shipped for further distribution for sale at retail and to retail deli stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

Manda Packing stated that it has notified all of its distributors and the affected products have been pulled from the shelves.

In addition, the company is working with its distributors to ensure consumers have a way to return products that were already purchased.

The FSIS was notified of the problem by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, which took an intact sample of cooked roast beef at a retail establishment on 5 April 2013 and found that the sample was contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The recall is now being expanded as additional samples from additional production dates were found to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

FSIS and Manda Packing have received no reports of illnesses related with consumption of these products.

Classified as Class I, the recall indicates a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product could cause serious, adverse health consequences.

Consumption of food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes can lead to listeriosis, an uncommon but potentially fatal disease that can cause high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness and nausea.