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A remoção de um produto não conforme em posse do consumidor, voluntariamente ou através de uma chamada pública, chama-se recall. Após breve pesquisa, nota-se que os tipos e procedimentos de recall de alimentos registrados nos órgãos reguladores no Brasil são subnotificados, quando comparados aos descritos em outros países como EUA, Canadá e pertencentes à União Europeia, especialmente se verificarmos o número de casos registrados por pequenas e médias empresas de alimentos. Sendo assim, o presente trabalho teve por objetivo verificar, através da técnica qualitativa de grupo focal, a percepção a respeito do recall de alimentos, e os entraves encontrados por gestores da cadeia produtiva de alimentos para a realização deste procedimento.

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A remoção de um produto não conforme em posse do consumidor, voluntariamente ou através de uma chamada pública, chama-se recall. Após breve pesquisa, nota-se que os tipos e procedimentos de recall de alimentos registrados nos órgãos reguladores no Brasil são subnotificados, quando comparados aos descritos em outros países como EUA, Canadá e pertencentes à União Europeia, especialmente se verificarmos o número de casos registrados por pequenas e médias empresas de alimentos. Sendo assim, o presente trabalho teve por objetivo verificar, através da técnica qualitativa de grupo focal, a percepção a respeito do recall de alimentos, e os entraves encontrados por gestores da cadeia produtiva de alimentos para a realização deste procedimento.(AU)

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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness of a mandatory product recall on the frequency of multiple mini-magnet ingestion at a large tertiary pediatric hospital, and to examine the morbidity and mortality associated with these ingestions. STUDY DESIGN: In this retrospective chart review, we searched our institution's electronic patient record for patients aged <18 years who had been diagnosed with ingested magnetic foreign bodies between 2002 and 2015, a period that included the mandatory product recall. We compared the frequency and character of ingestions before and after the recall. RESULTS: Comparing the postrecall years (January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2015) with the 2 years immediately preceding the recall year (January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2012) yields an incidence rate ratio of 0.34 (95% CI, 0.18-0.64) for all magnet ingestions and 0.20 (95% CI, 0.08-0.53) for ingestion of multiple magnets. Based on the Fisher exact test, the incidence of both magnet ingestion (P < .001) and multiple magnet ingestion (P < .001) decreased, and the morbidity associated with magnet ingestion decreased. There were no deaths in either study period. CONCLUSION: There was a significant decrease in multiple mini-magnet ingestion following a mandatory product recall. This study supports the effectiveness of the recall, which should bolster efforts to keep it in place in jurisdictions where it is being appealed. More broadly, the result provides general evidence of a recall helping decrease further harm from a product that carries a potential hazard.

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Traceability ensures a link between carcass, quarters or cuts of beef and the individual animal or the group of animals from which they are derived. Meat traceability is an essential tool for successful identification and recall of contaminated products from the market during a food crisis. Meat traceability is also extremely important for protection and value enhancement of good-quality brands. Molecular meat traceability would allow verification of conventional methods used for beef tracing in synthetic Mexican bovine breeds. We evaluated a set of 11 microsatellites for their ability to identify animals belonging to these synthetic breeds, Brangus and Charolais/Brahman (78 animals). Seven microsatellite markers allowed sample discrimination with a match probability, defined as the probability of finding two individuals sharing by chance the same genotypic profile, of 10(-8). The practical application of the marker set was evaluated by testing eight samples from carcasses and pieces of meat at the slaughterhouse and at the point of sale. The DNA profiles of the two samples obtained at these two different points in the production-commercialization chain always proved that they came from the same animal.

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Listeriosis is a severe infection caused by Listeria monocytogenes. Since 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has requested that listeriosis patients be interviewed using a standardized Listeria Initiative (LI) questionnaire. In January 2009, states and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began investigating a multistate outbreak of listeriosis among pregnant, Hispanic women. We defined a case as an illness occurring between October 2008 and March 2009 with an L. monocytogenes isolate indistinguishable from the outbreak strain by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. We conducted a multistate case-control study using controls that were selected from L. monocytogenes illnesses in non-outbreak-related pregnant, Hispanic women that were reported to the LI during 2004 to 2008. Eight cases in five states were identified. Seven of these were pregnant, Hispanic females aged 21 to 43 years, and one was a 3-year-old Hispanic girl, who was excluded from the study. Seven (100%) cases but only 26 (60%) of 43 controls had consumed Mexican-style cheese in the month before illness (odds ratio, 5.89; 95% confidence interval, 1.07 to ∞; P = 0.04). Cultures of asadero cheese made from pasteurized milk collected at a manufacturing facility during routine sampling by the Michigan Department of Agriculture on 23 February 2009 yielded the outbreak strain, leading to a recall of cheeses produced in the plant. Recalled product was traced to stores where at least three of the women had purchased cheese. This investigation highlights the usefulness of routine product sampling for identifying contaminated foods, of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis to detect multistate outbreaks, and of the LI for providing timely exposure information for case-control analyses. Recalls of contaminated cheeses likely prevented additional illnesses.

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Los problemas de salud se ven agravados en las ciudades por el crecimiento y el desarrollo que en gran parte no se planifica ni controlan y tienen asignados pocosrecursos económicos. La mayoría de los países latinoamericanos experimentan unproceso de urbanización intensivo y desordenado originando entre otros el aumento delcomercio informal y ambulatorio de todas clases de bienes y servicios, entre las que sedestaca la venta de comidas y una creciente industria informal de alimentos. En estecontexto, los procesos de descentralización se consideran estratégicos para el desarrollode las comunidades, y las Municipalidades están comenzando a fortalecer los serviciosadministrativos y económicos, para aumentar su eficiencia, eficacia y autonomía.

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