A CHEESE which may cause E.Coli has been recalled in the Vale of Glamorgan.

The Shared Regulatory Services team responsible for the Vale, Cardiff and Bridgend is urging consumers and businesses to be vigilant following a national recall of cheese supplies by Errington Cheese Ltd, Walston Braehead Farm, Carnwath, Lanark in Scotland.

Officers from the service are making contact with businesses, particularly delicatessens and specialist cheese shops across the three local authority areas, in an attempt to ensure the products are taken off sale.

The Food Standards Agency Scotland instigated the immediate recall of Errington Cheese products on September 15 following an E.Coli O157 outbreak.

A three-year-old girl died in Dunbartonshire earlier this month after being one of 20 confirmed cases of the outbreak linked to the company’s Dunsyre Blue cheese identified in July.

All Errington products including Dunsyre Blue, Dunsyre Baby, Lanark Blue, Lanark White, Maisie’s Kebbuck and Cora Linn have now been recalled as both O157 and non-O157 strains of E. coli have been detected in different types of cheeses produced by Errington Cheese Ltd.

This makes these products a potential health risk.

All consumers who have purchased these products are advised not to consume them and to return the products to where they purchased them.

Symptoms caused by both O157 and non-O157 E.coli can include diarrhoea, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhoea, and haemolytic uremic syndrome which is a serious condition that can lead to kidney failure.

Only very low doses of this bacterium are required to cause potential severe illness.

Councillor Gwyn John, Vale cabinet member and chair of the joint committee for shared regulatory services said: "The immediate and swift actions of local authority regulatory teams in Wales is a testament our well run and effective service."

If anyone has any queries please contact the commercial services team on 01446 709105.