Highland alert on banned cheese

HIGHLAND Council has been contacting food businesses, retailers, suppliers and hoteliers across the region following the ban on cheese linked to an E.coli 0157 outbreak in which a three year-old died.

Any outlets in the area are being urged to to notify the environmental health service if they have any produce made by Errington Cheese Ltd while consumers are advised not to eat the cheese.

The ban imposed by Food Standards Scotland covers Dunsyre Blue, Dunsyre Baby, Lanark Blue, Lanark White, Maisies Kebbuck, Cora Linn and Sir Lancelot.

Symptoms caused by E.coli 0157 include diarrhoea, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhoea and urinary and more serious kidney complications.

or you can telephone the environmental health service on 01349 886606.www.foodscotland.gov.ukFurther information about the cheese restriction can be found at the Food Standards Scotland website

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