The Makro wholesale distribution chain, owned by the Metro group, as well as the Yelmo cinemas, sold German sausages of the Casa Westfalia brand to which it supplies a German firm that has been affected by Listeria's alert.

Both the distributor and the cinemas have announced that they have removed the product from the outlets. The consumer organization Facua Consumidores en Acción had already requested this measure after learning that both companies were selling these products.

The German health authorities ordered the withdrawal of all Wilke brand products from the market, after the death of three people suffering from listeriosis.

The Listeria alert affects products manufactured by the German company Wilke, which supplies Casa Westfalia. The retired sausage is the giant currywurst (bockwurst) of three units per 180 grams. In the case of the Spanish brand, only food produced by the German company and not those of other suppliers have been withdrawn from the market.

Facua denounced on Tuesday that Makro is one of the chains of establishments that has marketed in Spain products affected by the international alert by Listeria decreed by the German government on all meat and derivatives of Wilke Waldecker.

Makro has indicated that he has contacted all those customers "who, based on their computer records, bought the sausages object of this alert in the last 90 days (total product life) to request their return."

In the case of Yelmo cinemas, the consumer association claims that it sold these sausages in 17 of its stores (out of a total of 48). Like Makro, he recalled the products after being informed by his supplier. Facua criticizes that the company has not placed any signs to inform consumers.

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