date:Jul 11, 2012
ausing harm to human health, Bontenbal said.
In 2008, Europes food safety watchdog urged food manufacturers to watch out forlisteriacontamination during packaging, preparation of food, warning that listeria was on the rise. The number of human cases of the disease increased 8.6 per cent in the EU from 1,427 incidents in 2005 to 1,583 in 2006.
Symptoms in humans vary, ranging from flu and diarrhoea to serious infections such as septicaemia and meningoencephalitis. In pregnant women the infectio