The Nation - News from Feb. 17, 1986

The Food and Drug Administration announced a nationwide recall of four brands of Brie cheese contaminated with bacteria that can cause a “mild flu-like illness” The cheese, made in Sorcy, France, and distributed nationwide contains the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, which can bring on a “flu-like illness in healthy people, stillbirth in pregnant women and serious illness or death in people under cancer therapy or those who have AIDS,” a spokesman said. The brands being pulled from East Coast store shelves are Rue Lepic, Prestige and J. Lincet. Louis XIV is the cheese stocked in San Francisco. All four brands of the soft, white cheese bear the lot code number 351. Last week, the FDA warned against consumption of Brie with the brand names Esprit Nouveau, code number 351, and Joan of Arc, code number 323.