Sainsbury’s Recalls Two Own-brand Hummus Varieties Over E Coli Fears

Sainsbury’s has recalled 2 varieties of its own-brand hummus complete fears they whitethorn incorporate a deadly strain of E coli, advising customers who person bought nan products not to eat them.

The affected items see 315g containers of JS Classic Houmous, pinch a use-by day of 13 September, and 200g tubs of JS Lemon & Coriander Houmous pinch a use-by day of 14 September.

The Food Standards Agency said nan affected batches could incorporate shiga toxin-producing E coli (Stec), and that nan items had been recalled arsenic a precaution.

Point of waste notices will beryllium displayed successful each stores trading nan products until 3 October, explaining to customers why they person been recalled and what to do if they person already bought them.

Sainsbury’s apologised to customers for immoderate inconvenience and advised them not to eat nan affected products.

The products covered by nan callback tin beryllium returned to Sainsbury’s branches for a afloat refund.

Symptoms of an E coli (Stec) infection see diarrhoea, pinch bleeding successful half of cases, fever and abdominal pain. The unwellness is usually self-limiting. Most cases lasting up to 2 weeks.

A mini proportionality of patients, chiefly children, could create life-threatening haemolytic uremic syndrome, which tin lead to kidney failure. A akin information called thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura whitethorn besides create successful a mini proportionality of adults.

Stec germs are astir prevalent successful cattle successful nan UK, but person besides been recovered successful nan faeces of deer, rabbits, horses, pigs and chaotic birds.

Government guidance says nan strain is peculiarly infectious because very fewer germs are needed to origin illness, allowing nan illness to dispersed easy wrong families and different settings specified arsenic hospitals and schools.

People tin go sick done eating contaminated food, interaction pinch infected animals aliases group who person nan illness, and drinking h2o from inadequately treated sources.

The UK Health Security Agency said location were 2,544 cases of Stec infection successful England successful 2024, a 26% emergence compared pinch nan twelvemonth before.

Several supermarkets were forced to ditch products successful June past twelvemonth erstwhile nan sandwich makers Greencore and Samworth Brothers recalled their items during different outbreak of E coli.

The 2 producers had to callback 60 products recovered to incorporate a assortment of crockery leafage linked to a Stec outbreak.