Several types of goat cheese from the Chevrier des Crays brand are subject to a product recall for contamination with E.Coli bacteria. This can cause, among other things, diarrhea or gastroenteritis.
- Health authorities point out that, as a precaution, raw milk and cheeses made from raw milk should not be consumed by children under 5 and pregnant women.
- Prefer cooked pressed cheeses (such as Emmental, Comté, etc.), processed cheese spreads and pasteurized milk cheeses.
- The same recommendation should be followed for immunocompromised people and the elderly.
If you are a goat cheese lover and usually buy those of the Chevrier des Crays brand, you may be affected by this product recall. Several batches of brand products marketed in September were contaminated with pathogenic strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli.
Four types of products are concerned: fresh goat cheese “Satonnay – Flowers” of 140g, the “Cabrifresh” (raw milk goat cheese), the “Mini Churns” (dry goat cheese) and “Corks France” (fresh goat cheese).
Product recall: a refund or an exchange is possible
Distributed by various brands in France – Auchan, Carrefour, Intermarché, Système U, Leclerc, etc. – these cheeses must not be consumed and must be destroyed or brought back to the store, if they correspond to the batches concerned. You can find the batch numbers on the site rappel.conso.gouv.fr. These products can be refunded for some (this is the case for Satonnay and Cabrifrais) until November 12 or exchanged (for Bouchons and Mini-Barattes) until Wednesday November 16, when the procedures for reminder.
Contamination with E.coli bacteria: what symptoms?
Bacteria Escherichia coli, often abbreviated as E.coli, are regularly responsible for the contaminations causing product recalls each year, such as during the Buitoni pizza scandal. As the Rappel Conso site reminds us, they can cause diarrhea, sometimes bloody, or gastroenteritis, abdominal pain and vomiting, with or without fever. These symptoms may be followed (in 5 to 8% of cases) by severe renal complications, mainly in children.
People who have eaten the goat cheeses concerned and who present this type of symptom are invited to consult their doctor without delay, notifying him of this consumption as well as the place and date of purchase. In the absence of symptoms within 10 days after ingestion of the products concerned, there is no need to worry and consult a doctor.
