Purchasers or consumers of duckling may wish to ask restaurants or places where they consume duckling if the product or meal contains the recalled product. The company notified FSIS of a positive Listeria monocytogenes test result and initiated a recall. Consumption of food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, an uncommon but potentially fatal disease. Healthy people rarely contract listeriosis.
Listeriosis can cause high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness, and nausea.
FSIS has received no reports of illness associated with consumption of this product. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a physician. Notice of this product warning was sent via email to SafetyAlerts subscribers January 16, 2001. For more information regarding the SafetyAlerts free email alert service please click here . SafetyAlerts compiles comprehensive safety recall information for the United States.