Lidl warning over suspect cheese
German supermarket chain Lidl has issued a second warning to Germans not to eat Austrian cheese thought to be linked to deaths from food poisoning.
“Lidl asks all customers to totally avoid eating the suspect products, says a warning on Lidl’s German website.
German researchers believe contaminated Reinhardshof cheese was to blame for six deaths from listeria last year.
The two recalled brands were produced by an Austrian firm – Prolactal GmbH, in Hartberg, Austria. But it was not sold by Lidl in Austria, according to the Lidl statement.
A spokesman for Lidl UK says that the Reinhardshof hard cheese and farmhouse cheese with mould“are not listed here – they have never been on sale in the UK.
