The U.S. Department of Agriculture has now announced that they will be tweeting news about food recalls for each specific state. The USDA currently tweets general recalls, but officials have now stated that state-specific accounts will now be created.

The state-specific accounts will now announce the recall of meats, poultry and egg product for each state. The idea came about in order to better inform residents of food products that make them ill.

Now, all a person has to do is follow their state’s twitter feed and they will be instantly informed about what defective food products that affect them personally.

The Twitter alerts will be two letters from the state’s name followed by and underscore and FSISALERT. Food recalls were previously announced in press releases.

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An Illinois-based company, Vita Food Products, has now announced the voluntary recall of smoked salmon products after it was determined that the batch could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The number of recalled packages totals to 8,088 packs of the “Premium Sliced Smoked Atlantic Nova Salmon” that have the recall date of Dec. 15, 2011.

Listeria monocytogenes is a bacteria that causes food poisoning with symptoms of fever, stiffness, severe headache, nausea, and diarrhea. The salmon was sold at Meijer, Publix, Winn-Dixie and Safeway.

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