A Packaged meat company in the United States is being forced to recall their pork sausage products. The Smithfield Packing Company is recalling about 38, 000 pounds of there inventory. The reason for the recall is because it may contain different fragments of plastic. The plastic in the meat will most likely be fragments of plastic gloves. The announcement was just made this Thursday after the U.S. Food Safety Inspection found the plastic fragments.
Sausage Feast (Photo credit: danpeters)
These sausages were sold in a total of 11 states. They were also sold I the District of Columbia. The recalled products are sold in 1 pound packages. Specifically, they are a Gwaltney mild pork sausage roll. The packages affected have a use by date of March 12, 2013. Each package has a case code of 78533109741. They bear the establishment number Est. 221-A inside the U.S. Department of Agriculture mark of inspection.
The company found out about the problems when 2 customers filed a complaint with the Food Safety and Inspection Service. Fortunately there have been no complaints of injuries. The products were distributed in Alabama, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.
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