Suspicious meat products: Mostly mentioning one company

The production is diverse

The major supermarkets are almost regularly reported to the public about the unsafe food products that have entered the shelves and indicate their customers to return them to the shops.

Different reports include various meat products with dangerous bacteria: cold -smoked pork bacon, chilled pork mince, neck steaks, dried sausage, frozen beef.

Merchants and quality inspectors also indicate manufacturers of suspicious products. These messages make it possible to get an approximate picture of which food processing companies are more likely to receive negative attention and reaction from consumers.

Indicated the dominant

Kauno diena appealed to the State Food and Veterinary Service (SFVS) and asked to provide generalized statistics about possibly unsafe meat products and their manufacturers.

As we asked, we mentioned the largest (editorial data) of the meat range.

SFVS informed that most of the unprotected food reports in 2024-2025. was due to the production of Biovela -Utena Meat – a total of nine. Further in the top three – Samson (three messages) and Nematekas – (two reports).

SFVS also distinguished poultry products. During this period, three cases are usually recorded in Nemairesko products.

Imposes sanctions on companies

The explanation sent to the editorial staff emphasizes that the SFVS determines which place of sale of Lithuania has received or possibly distributed an insecure product and indicates to recover it as soon as possible, to destroy it and to ensure that consumers are informed of the potential risks.

« The retail outlets are ordered to publicly publish information and allow customers to return unsafe products. It is the responsibility of sellers and supermarkets, as they must protect their customers from potential health risks, » the SFVS emphasizes in the editorial explanation.

If the market has been found to have been submitted to the market, the companies submitted to the companies have been sanctioned.

« When the food business operator provides unsafe food to the market, SFVS specialists carry out non -planned inspections of food business operators, which assess the amount of unsafe product, the extent of the distribution, and restrictions are applied, » the SFVS explanation.

Medium: Pork mince is found that the bacteria dangerous to human health are found. / Photo by BNS

Causing an infection

One of the recent reports of meat containing hazardous bacteria emphasizes that pork mince contained pathogenic microorganisms – Salmonella spp; As the SFVS points out, they can cause diseases that spread through food, such as salmonellosis. It was announced that the shopping center received a shipment of meat from Biovela -Utena Matas.

The National Center for Public Health indicates that Salmonella is a bacterium that causes acute infectious bowel disease – salmonellosis.

The disease is manifested by diarrhea, fever, abdominal and headaches. These symptoms of the disease usually occur 12-72 hours after infection. The disease usually lasts 4-7 days and many recover without specific treatment. However, in some patients, bacteria from the intestine may enter the bloodstream and other organs. In this case, the disease may result in death if left untreated. The disease is more severe in infants, young children, the elderly and individuals whose immune system is weaker.

Dangerous bacteria

Earlier, Maxima, Iki and Rimi retail chains asked consumers to return the unsafe cold smoked pork bacon, made by meat processed by Biovelos -Utena Meat. SFVS then reported that one party product detected dangerous bacteria that could cause listeriosis.

SFVS informed that the « biovelos -Utena meat » made of cold smoked pork bacon, no. 2410130021, received not only the major retail chains IKI Lietuva, Maxima Lietuva, Rimi Lietuva, but also Eiginta and Sanitex.

After the information about the unsafe product was spread, a spokeswoman for Biovelos -Utena meat told the media that the company had discovered a possible microbiological pollution.

« In order to ensure the highest level of product safety, we are constantly conducting strict quality and safety research in our company laboratory. Therefore, we want to clarify that we have identified potential microbiological contamination ourselves through preventive inspection. Without waiting for more detailed and final results, A spokeswoman for the company told 15min.lt.

Rare but dangerous

Specialists of the Center for Communicable Diseases and AIDS emphasize that listeriosis is a rare but dangerous disease that can be transmitted through animal food.

Individual cases of listeriosis are registered in Lithuania, but in individuals with a weaker immune system, as well as the elderly, the disease is dangerous. Listeria Monocytogenes Bacteria are found in soil, water, sludge, silo, etc. The source of the infection is infected homemade and wild mammals, poultry and humans.

These bacteria are quite resistant to the external environment. They can multiply at 4-6 ° C in soil, water, on plants, in food. At temperatures above 62 ° C per half an hour. Bacteria in the human body can damage many organs, so the symptoms of the disease can be very diverse. The disease can occur with fever, muscle aches, angina, signs of conjunctival inflammation, inflammation of the lymph nodes, sometimes vomiting or diarrhea.

Ambiguous assessment

After calling the phone numbers specified by the Biovelos -Utena Meat website after the journalists of Kauno diena call, the employee offered to contact a quality specialist.

« Are you sure Biovela dominates? » – When the specialist was responsible for the quality, the biovelos -Utena meat spokeswoman, who heard that « Kauno diena » from the SFVS received data, was asked by 2024-2025. Insecure products are dominated by Biovelos -Utena meat products.

If we rely on the data of the responsible authority, the specialist was considering the one -sidedness of the information.

« Trying to distinguish one company that is known in Lithuania and is large, and writes about it, without evaluating the context of the question, nor what is published there and by making assumptions that dominates. I don’t know now, I did not read those statistics. Nobody writes about it… I would like to take all the statistics, the whole context.

She wondered why other foods were not mentioned in terms of risks.

« Why not talk about cheeses, the vegetables that people eat green and raw. What is the risk of these products? If you opened European writings, you would see how many such writings are published per day. Such writings are published for several reasons – the exchange of knowledge between the veterinary services of several states, and that information is made public for a completely different purpose. I can say that in no European country except Lithuania is published by such registers, ”said a spokeswoman for Biovelos -Utena Meat.

The employee promised that the more businessful answers to the editorial staff of the Biovela -Utena meat will be provided. However, we did not receive more than a week’s answers, comments or explanations.

The hazardous output is rarely returned

How do customers respond to calls for hazardous products purchased to the store? What are the reactions of them in this case? ” – Kauno diena asked Iki communications manager Gintare Kitė.

Accent: G. Kitė noted the rather unusual behavior of buyers – it is dangerous to almost not return the recognized production. / Photo by Personal Archive

– How many percent of hazardous production is restored?

– Customers with the goods specified by the purchase check can be returned to any store within fourteen days. However, such cases do not occur.

– Could you distinguish between one, two manufacturers whose products are more likely to fall into the list of returned?

– Such cases are uncommon, so we would not be indicated by specific manufacturers. We have high requirements for suppliers, and we are proactive in the output of our private brands.

The quality of the goods is very important to us, so we are constantly testing the quality of the products and the quality managers of the stores.

As soon as we receive a report of possibly unsafe product detected, we send information to the stores the same day. In this case, the goods are removed from the shelves. If the entire party is canceled, the item can be blocked at the box office so that the buyers will not be able to purchase it even if they are not removed from the shelf.