Urgent help needed on Hummous

[Blandmum]

Help. Have realised today that there has been a salmonella scare.

I bought some rather scrummy looking french hummous from Sainsbury's on the 14th. Are french manufactued ones affected

Help plese???? ASAP I'm preparing a meze!!!

I don't know - dh was looking at the story online today and I think it was a Swedish/Norwegian/Danish company that manufactured the iffy stuff - I know M&S, Sainsburys, Safeway and I think tesco have pulled stuff. I'll see if I can find what he was looking at.

It was yahoo here and it's an Icelandic firm (I was close...ish)

I think it's own brands from Sainsbury's/Waitrose/M&S and some other stores. Have a vague memory than when I saw the list in the paper, there was a French Sainsbury's one on the list though, sorry. Try BBC Online?

bbc

All own brand Sains houmous has been recalled

Bakkavor stuff here

Thanks. Mine is Sabra brand, made in =France, so I assume is OK

list from Sains itself

this

Their press release says Sainsbury's own brand houmous, flavoured houmous and topped houmous - all date codes up to 28th February.

I think yours will be fine - bet no-one eats it though You've not got any Bernard Matthews' turkey on offer as well, have you?

Oh dear. DS addicted to houmus and we've been eating the sainsbury's stuff all week (have just thrown away the last mini pot empty). Fingers crossed.

It says in their press release that no-one has been ill as a result of eating it - I'm sure withdrawing it is just precautionary.

Problem is that it's a ready to eat product, same as Cadbury's chocolate, so contamination won't be destroyed by cooking.

Bet you are OK though Pooka, it can't all be contaminated, can it? [hopeful emoticon]

we've been eating sainsbury's stuff all week too. would we have been ill by now though if it was contaminated? dd adores it!

Here's hoping its just precautionary. Love the idea of a hopeful emoticon.

if you are pregnant could your baby get salmonella without you having any symptoms?

just looked at the pregnancy nutrition site and it seems not. phew

The onset of symptoms after eating food contaminated with salmonella is is generally 12 ? 48 hours but can vary between 6 and 72 hours.

(I googled that, btw, I don't just carry this stuff round in my head ) So I reckon it's a fairly safe bet to say if you've been eating it all week, pooka, you'll be fine.

I have just bought some from Tescos and I am buggered if I am taking it back!

I threw away our half-eaten tub of houmous from Sainsbury's this morning.

dd had quite bad stomach ache in the middle of the night which got me slightly worried tbh (she had quite a lot of the houmous0 - but she also has a stinking cold atm, I think she may be been a bit dehydrated.

and I was all annoyed at M&S this evening when I saw they had no houmus on their shelves.

Well no salmonella here! Though ds really really grumpy. But then that could describe practically every day for the last 3 weeks (unless we're climbing up and down the stairs/rolling in mud all day long).

Think think think I remember dd going through this phase too when she was about 18months. That might be wishful thinking though. He may just be Oscar the Grouch until the end of time......

No houmous with my ocado delivery today - either there's been a run on waitrose brand stuff or it's not available. I do miss it though - the perfect easy lunch. Peel carrots, cut cucumber, make toast et voila!

But jura, it is so quick and easy to rustle up your own

yeah, while your nanny's planning next week's menu and writing the shopping list