Urgent recall of popular cheese issued - batches tainted with bacteria that kills one in 20

Health chiefs person slapped an urgent 'do not eat' informing connected a fashionable marque of bluish cheese over fears immoderate batches are contaminated with deadly bacteria.

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) warned that Isle of Mull Cheese's Hebridean Blue Cheese whitethorn incorporate Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), which tin trigger terrible nutrient poising and life-threatening kidney problems. 

No different Isle of Mull Cheese products are known to beryllium affected. 

STEC is considered to beryllium highly infectious, lone a fewer bacteria request to beryllium ingested for a idiosyncratic to go ill.

Symptoms of corruption see vomiting, fever, tummy cramps and diarrhoea which tin past up to 2 weeks.

But successful up to 15 per cent of cases, the bug tin origin haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a life-threatening information that tin pb to kidney failure. 

Children nether the property of 5 are astatine the highest hazard of HUS.

However, it tin besides impact different susceptible groups, including the aged and immunocompromised.

The recall announcement affects each battalion sizes with a champion earlier day of April 10, 2025 and a batch codification 8051224. 

Customers who person purchased the merchandise person been urged not to devour it and instrumentality it to the store from wherever it was bought for a afloat refund.

The institution said successful response: 'Most varieties of food successful the satellite are produced are from earthy milk.

'It has been utilized to sphere nutrient for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

'Producing earthy beverage food is tough. The food being recalled would person passed mean investigating arsenic nary pathogens were recovered utilizing agar plates.

'Cooking the food volition wholly region immoderate anticipation of illness. We person withdrawn each Hebridean Blue food for further testing.' 

The quality comes aft a caller drawstring of recalls owed to E.coli contamination. 

More than 100 Brits were struck down by the bug successful nether a fortnight past year—with contaminated lettuce successful sandwiches yet recovered to beryllium the cause.

Seven cases of HUS were reported astatine the clip and determination was 1 death.

More than 60 sandwiches, wraps and salads sold successful 11 large shops were fixed 'do not eat' alerts arsenic precautionary measure.

Experts judge the texture of lettuce makes it much prone to being contaminated with E. coli though h2o tainted with infected carnal faeces and the information it's not cooked, which would usually termination disconnected bugs, expanding the risk.

While the bulk of known cases are thought to person been from depletion from infected food, 2 are believed to person been passed from idiosyncratic to person, for illustration parents caring for children who caught the bug.

People person been advised to interaction NHS 111 oregon their GP if they oregon their children amusement immoderate symptoms of E. coli infection.