In France a weekly newspaper, the Ouest-France Dimanche, alleged that Coudray had known about its listeria problem since last November.
Undeclared allergens caused more than 45% of the food recalls, exceeding the total number caused by Salmonella, Botulism, and Listeria combined.
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Salmonella in peanut butter sickened 42 people last fall and cantaloupes tainted with Listeria infected 146 people and killed 30 in 2011, according to the CDC.
Mr Rhodes said the FSA had a presence in every abattoir in the UK and tested 90, 000 products a year, for bacteria such as listeria and salmonella.
The FDA found Listeria monocytogenes or L. mono on a honeydew melon and at the packing facility in Faison, North Carolina, it announced in a news release.
For example, only 20 years ago Listeria, E. coli O157:H7, Campylobacter and Cyclospora, all of which have caused recent outbreaks, were not known to cause foodborne illness.
The head of the French health service, Lucien Abenhaim, said people should be on their guard for the next eight weeks - the maximum incubation time for listeria infection.
The FSA says it tested almost 80, 000 samples of food last year and focuses "on those risks that can make people ill or worse" including looking for arsenic and listeria.
Washington (CNN) -- The Food and Drug Administration proposed two new rules Friday that it estimates could eliminate up to 1.25 million foodborne illnesses each year from such pathogens as Salmonella, Listeria and E.
Listeria monocytogenes, for example, is a microbe that actually grows happily at refrigerator temperatures and is thus delighted with the new popularity of mass-produced foods that sit on refrigerator shelves in tidy plastic cartons.
Contamination on farms and in processing facilities from bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli and listeria are often behind the large food recalls, but often food contamination takes place in home and restaurant kitchens, said Dr. Griffin.
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"In 20 years, this is the first time I've seen a criminal indictment of this magnitude, " said Mr. Marler, who added he has also been contacted by federal law-enforcement officials investigating a 2010 salmonella outbreak linked to eggs from Iowa and a 2011 Colorado listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes.
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