
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 26, 1994                   TAG: 9411160152
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B8   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MONROE, WIS.                                 LENGTH: Short

BACTERIA COUNT SHUTS DOWN BAKERY

Swiss Colony Inc. temporarily idled its bakery and recalled 17,000 cases of its products sold by mail order nationwide because of possible bacteria contamination.

No illnesses were connected to the baked goods. The company planned to resume production today after being down for less than a week, said John Baumann, vice president of marketing.

Ninety-five percent of the 17,000 cases were ``accounted for or retrieved,'' vice president and general counsel Rudy Regez said Monday.

Most of the products were distributed by mail order under the labels Swiss Colony, Green County, Figi's and Neiman Marcus, Regez said.

The recall affected petits fours, brownies and doboshettes, or double petits fours, baked after Sept. 6, with packages bearing code numbers 9549 through 9592.

-Associated Press

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