Recall Expanded to Include Cooking Oils and Sauces Suspected of Salmonella Contamination

The Food and Drug Administration has just expanded an earlier recall of Union International Food Company products to include Uncle Chen and Lian How brand cooking sauces, oils, and oil blends.

The foods items are suspected of being contaminated with a strain of food poisoning called Salmonella Rissen, which can cause severe abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and other symptoms, particularly in the elderly, children, and people with lowered immune systems.

So far, there have been 57 reports of food poisoning from the strain of salmonella, officials said.

The recalled oils, sauces, and oil blends were sold to retailers, wholesalers, distributors, and restaurants in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin, the FDA said. They were sold in various sizes, ranging from six ounces to one gallon, in both plastic and glass bottles. In restaurants, the oils were used to prepare food and as condiments on table tops.

The newly expanded recall follows an earlier action involving the company’s Lian How brand spices and Uncle Chen’s band white pepper and white pepper. Those foods, recalled in early April 2009, also are suspected of carrying salmonella.

A complete list of all of the Union International Food Co. products being recalled may be found at http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/unioninternational_list3.html.

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