Listeria Recall: Pap's Louisiana Cuisine Hog Head Cheese
Pap’s Louisiana Cuisine, a Prairieville, La, firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 290 pounds of hog head cheese products that may be contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The following products are subject to recall:
5-pound packages of "VERON, HOG HEAD CHEESE." Each package bears the establishment number "EST. 13581" inside the USDA mark of inspection, as well as the Use-by/Sell-by date "022807."
The hog head cheese products were produced on December 27, 2006, and were distributed to retail establishments in Southeast Louisiana.
The incubation period for Listeria can be anywhere from 11-70 days. If you have eaten the recalled Pap’s Louisiana Cuisine hog head cheese, you should watch for Listeria symptoms, including fever, muscle aches, diarrhea, headache, loss of balance and confusion. If you are pregnant and ate the recalled hog head cheese, your unborn baby is at risk. Read about Listeria and pregnancy.