The Spanish Food and Nutrition Safety Agency announced that it became aware through an alert notification sent by the health authorities of Aragon about the presence of salmonella in Minced Poultry Meat The product has been sold in Spain through LIDL supermarkets.
The product in question is sold in a plastic tray of 500 grams labeled as Burger Meat Chicken-Turkey. It is batch number 3369 with an expiration date of tomorrow, June 3rd.
This information was transferred to the competent authorities of the autonomous communities, in order to verify the withdrawal of affected products from marketing channels.
With the available information There is no record in Spain of any reported cases associated with this alert.
As As a precaution, it is recommended that people keep the products listed above at home, refrain from consuming them and return them to points of sale.
If you have consumed these products and experience any symptoms compatible with salmonellosis (mainly diarrhea and/or vomiting accompanied by fever and headaches), it is recommended that you go to a health center.
What is salmonella?
Salmonella is a common bacterial disease that affects the intestinal tract. It is usually transmitted to humans by eating food contaminated with animal feces.
Salmonella, as reported by Aesan, has a great capacity for adaptation, which allows it to survive in very diverse environments for months or even years. It can multiply in a wide range of temperatures, from 5 to 45ºC, with the optimum temperature being 35-37 ºC, and is capable of surviving in a wide range of pH.
It is a bacterium capable of infecting both people and animals, which can remain carriers for long periods. The animals that drive most often salmonella are poultry and pigs.
It is especially worrying in pregnant women, as the infection crosses the placenta and can cause serious illness or even death of the fetus, when symptoms are mild in the mother. That's why the pregnant You must be especially careful with food when the heat starts and cook the food well.
In 2020, 52,702 confirmed cases of salmonellosis in humans were reported in the European Union, registering the lowest number since 2007, due to the impacts of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU, on the one hand, and the Covid-19 pandemic, for another.
In Spain, where it is a notifiable disease, in 2020 3,526 cases of salmonellosis were reported in humans.
