Longview company voluntarily recalls sandwiches

[OhioChick]

Source: AP

Aug. 8, 2007, 9:32PM

LONGVIEW, Texas — A Longview company has voluntarily recalled more than 4,200 Cloud's tuna salad and egg salad sandwiches because of the possibility they could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

That type of contamination can cause listeriosis, which is uncommon but potentially fatal.

"We've had no reports of anybody getting sick from these sandwiches and most were probably consumed during July," David Floyd, president of Cloud Food Services, said in a story in Wednesday's online editions of the Longview News-Journal. "However, they were distributed to a large number of convenience stores in the area and we want to put the safety of our customers first."

The 4,219 sandwiches were sold in convenience stores in East Texas, west Louisiana and southwest Arkansas. The tuna salad sandwiches carry the date code 62607-72507. The egg salad sandwiches carry the date code 41907-72507.

The potential problem was discovered during sampling by the Food and Drug Administration.

Listeriosis can cause high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness and nausea. It can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths, as well as serious and sometimes fatal infections to infants, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5039001.html

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. Who eats these things?

Egg salad? From a convenience store? Are people off their nut?

I'm sorry, but both tuna and egg salad fall under the make-it-yerself-or-don't-eat category.

[murielm99]

2. A couple of years ago,

I was sent to work in an unfamiliar town and I forgot my lunch.

I bought one of those egg salad sandwiches at a convenience store. It was all they had left. It was dried out and tasteless, but it was food. It put me off egg salad for at least a year.

[Stuckinthebush]

3. I did once

In a moment of crazed hunger on a business trip I grabbed one off the shelve and started eating it in the car.

As I was driving down I-65 with said egg salad sandwich in my hand I remember thinking, "What the hell am I doing? I'm going to die a slow, horrible death from this thing!"

It was rather nasty.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Drunk college kids?

:shrug:

[guitar man]

4. Longview

I have a feeling these sandwiches from Longview might lead to Dookie ...:evilfrown:

[Javaman]

6. Oh man...

:rofl: