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Dunnes Stores is recalling its ‘Fresh, Ready to wash' spinach and mixed leaves due to contamination with a bacteria that can cause menigitis.

Products being sent back from the store's NI chains are their ‘Fresh, Ready to wash, Spinach Leaves’ and ‘ Fresh, Ready to Wash, Mixed Leaves’, due to contamination with Listeria Monocytogene.

The bacteria causes flu-like symptoms, including:

- High temperature

- Muscle aches and pains

- Chills,

- Stomach sickness and diarrhoea.

In rare cases, however, the infections can be much more severe, causing serious complications, such as meningitis.

Some people are more vulnerable to listeria infections, including those over 65 years of age, pregnant women and their unborn babies, babies less than one month old and people with weakened immune systems.

Dunnes is now recalling to following products: "Dunnes Stores Fresh Ready to Wash Spinach Leaves Pack, size 100g (used by 26th September 2018) and Dunnes Stores Fresh Ready to Wash Mixed Leaves Pack, size 75g (used by 26th September 2018).

No other Dunnes Stores products are known to be affected.

"Point of sale" notices will be displayed in all retail stores that are selling these products, explaining to customers why the products are being recalled and tell them what to do if they have bought the products.

A Dunnes Stores spokesperson said: "Our advice to consumers If you have bought any of the above products do not eat them. Instead, return them to the store where they were bought for a full refund."

If there is a problem with a food product that means it should not be sold, then it might be 'withdrawn' (taken off the shelves) or 'recalled' (when customers are asked to return the product).

The Food Standards Agency issues Product Withdrawal Information Notices and Product Recall Information Notices to let consumers and local authorities know about problems associated with food.

In some cases, a 'Food Alert for Action' is issued, providing authorities with details of specific action to be taken on behalf of consumers.

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