{"id":13331,"date":"2016-04-04T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=13331"},"modified":"2016-04-04T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:41:57","slug":"trs-warns-customers-against-salmonella-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/04\/trs-warns-customers-against-salmonella-contamination\/","title":{"rendered":"TRS Warns Customers Against Salmonella Contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The product recall requests the return of:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">TRS Jeera Powder, batch number P353340, 100g pack labelled best before December 31, 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">TRS Dhania Powder, batch number A481514, 100g pack labelled best before end of December, 2017.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Popular South-Asian brand TRS have urged customers to return particular batches of cumin and coriander powders in light of a recent Salmonella scare.<\/p>\n<p>The well-established company, based in Southall, will be displaying point-of-sale notices noticed in all stores, informing customers as to why products are being recalled and what to do in the product in question has been purchased.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Sowerby, head of operations at TRS Wholesale Limited, said: \u201cTRS would like to reassure all customers that we are fully committed to supplying top quality and safe products conforming to all UK food regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two products in question were packed at reputed facilities in India and the goods tested by the Spice Board of India for conformity with European regulations prior to shipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn receipt in UK the goods were again tested at reputed UK laboratory and all results showed the absence of salmonella.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salmonella, a bacterium that can cause severe food poisoning can lead to diarrhoea, fever and abdominal cramps.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms develop between 12 to 72 hours after consuming contaminated foods and usually lasting four to seven days. In extreme cases, diarrhoea and dehydration may be so severe that hospital treatment is required.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sowerby added: \u201cAs salmonella is not present in a homogeneous manner, as a further precaution the packets carry a usage instruction stating &#8216;Do not consume uncooked&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTesting in these two batches found two packets of Jeera powder and one packet of Dhania powder to be contaminated with salmonella.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese two batches have been withdrawn from sale and the outlets who purchased these batches advised to withdraw the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo other batches are affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be noted that, to date, no complaints have been received from customers and the problem was raised as part of a routine sampling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Its no the first time that TRS have had Salmonella scares. In December 2007, the company recalled a batch of sesame seeds due to the presence of the same bacterium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The product recall requests the return of: TRS Jeera Powder, batch number P353340, 100g pack labelled best before December 31, 2017 TRS Dhania Powder, batch number A481514, 100g pack labelled best before end of December, 2017. Popular South-Asian brand TRS have urged customers to return particular batches of cumin and coriander powders in light of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,53,38,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-latest","category-national-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}