|Articles|October 26, 2019

Recalls That Should Be on Your Radar—Week of October 20, 2019

We’ve rounded up a list of important US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recalls from this past week.

We’ve compiled a list of recalls issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) from this past week:

T & R Enterprise USA Inc. Issues Meat and Poultry Recall Due to Insanitary Conditions

T & R Enterprise US Inc., an establishment based in St. Louis, Missouri, is recalling approximately 126,000 pounds of meat and poultry egg roll products that were determined to be produced and packaged under insanitary conditions during routine inspection by the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.

The affected products were produced from August 1, 2019, to September 26, 2019. The products subject to recall are marked with establishment number “EST. 33792” or “P33792” inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to locations in Georgia and Missouri.

There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products.

Read the recall statement.

Pride of Florida Issues Beef Recall Due to Possible E Coli O157:H7

Pride of Florida, an establishment based in Raiford, Florida, is recalling approximately 64,797 pounds of raw beef products that may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7. The problem was discovered when Pride of Florida was informed by their third-party laboratory that a sample was positive for E coli O157:H7, but the products associated with the sample had already been put in circulation.

The affected products were produced between September 23, 2019, and October 10, 2019. They were sent to commercial distributors in Florida.

There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products.

Read the recall statement.

George's Prepared Foods Issues Pork and Turkey Recall Due to Possible Salmonella

George’s Prepared Foods, a Caryville, Tennessee establishment, is recalling approximately 6444 pounds of ready-to-eat pork sausage patty and turkey sausage patty products that may be contaminated with Salmonella.

The issue was discovered when George’s Prepared Foods notified the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service that the firm’s third-party cold storage facility had inadvertently shipped the products.

There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products.

Read the recall statement.


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