Bounce Foods is recalling its Cashew & Pecan Vitality Lift Balls and Apple & Cinnamon Protein Punch Balls, as the products might contain listeria.
Symptoms caused by this organism can be similar to flu and include high temperature, muscle ache or pain, chills, feeling or being sick and diarrhoea. However, in rare cases, the infection can be more severe, causing serious complications, such as meningitis.
Some people are more vulnerable to listeria infections, including those over 65 years of age, pregnant women and their unborn babies, babies less than one month old and people with weakened immune systems.
The recall is being undertaken voluntarily by the company, which says that it has “continued to receive no news of consumers being affected by the possible contamination”.
The recall comes after an ingredient supplier was found to have distributed sunflower kernels that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (L.mono). Listeria is a food bacterium that may cause food poisoning.
In a statement, Bounce Foods said: “Bounce Foods cares deeply about the health and safety of consumers and as such we have chosen to continue to initiate a voluntary recall of these products in an abundance of caution to rule out the risk entirely.”
