FSIS issues public health alert for meat sauce
Producers of the meat sauce products, Indiana-based Thompson’s Spanish Sauce Manufacturing LLC, does not have a federal grant of inspection.
Meat sauce products
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The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing a public health alert for meat sauce products produced without the benefit of federal inspection. The producer, Thompson’s Spanish Sauce Manufacturing LLC in Marion, Ind., does not have a federal grant of inspection. FSIS is issuing a public health alert because the company was unavailable to confirm their actions to remove affected products from commerce. FSIS will continue to work with the company and conduct effectiveness checks to verify customers are notified and ensure no affected products are available to consumers.
The meat sauce products subject to the public health alert include 16-ounce jars of “Thompson's B-K Spanish Sauce,” and 16-ounce jars of “Thompson's B-K Spicey Coney Sauce.”
These products do not bear the USDA mark of inspection. The items were sold to distribution and retail locations in Illinois and Indiana and were further distributed to certain farmers’ markets.
The problem was discovered during routine FSIS surveillance activities at a retail location in Roann, Ind., where FSIS investigators identified these thermally processed meat sauce products for sale without a federal mark of inspection.
There have been no confirmed reports of illness due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a health care provider.
FSIS is concerned that some product may be in consumers’ refrigerators, freezers or pantries. Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be thrown away.
Source: USDA FSIS
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