A California company is recalling almost 300,000 pounds of ready-to-eat corned beef that was imported and distributed in the United States without the benefit of import re-inspection, according to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
Milky Way International Trading Corp., doing business as MW Polar of Norwalk, CA,
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Procesadora La Hacienda, Inc., located in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico on Friday recalled approximately 4,940 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) corned beef products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, namely pieces of metal, says the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The RTE corned beef items
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As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, you might be thinking of eating a home-cooked meal of corned beef and cabbage, and of course, consuming a few (or more) beers to go along with it. But, in between all the fun, how do you keep these foods safe to eat and
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Following complaints from schools, Procesadora La Hacienda Inc. of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, is recalling 2,400 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) corned beef that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically soft plastic and metal.
The RTE corned beef was produced on Oct. 4 and were shipped to institutions in Puerto
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Aadji & Manten International LLC of Rockville, MD, is recalling approximately 1,108 pounds of Laser brand canned corned beef products not presented at the U.S. point of entry for inspection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Wednesday. Without the benefit of full inspection, a
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Those of us on the USDA’s Meat and Poultry Hotline can always tell when St. Patrick’s Day approaches. Starting in early March, we begin to receive lots of questions about corned beef: How do you prepare it? How can you tell when it’s safely cooked? How long can you store
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With JBS, SA, the largest beef company on the planet based in Brazil, and Sampco Inc., its export/import operation based in Chicago, one might think the biggest pros in the business could keep meat from one banned Brazilian processing plant from getting into the United States.
But one would be
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Cooked beef products from one source in Brazil have been stopped at the border because they contain too much of a broad-spectrum antiparasitic used as a de-worming agent in animals. Some “associated products” did get through.
That’s why Chicago’s Sampco Inc. finds itself in the middle of a second-class, low
