An urgent warning has been issued in three states after more than 7,500 pounds of raw sausage meat was recalled for containing potentially deadly ingredients.
Impero Foods & Meats, based out of Baltimore, Maryland, produced raw pork sausage products without it being inspected by the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
FSIS says the products ‘weren’t processed to meet safety standards, posing a risk to public health’.
The product was shipped to restaurants and retail locations in Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
The raw Italian pork sausage items were produced from October 3 through December 19 and have the establishment number ‘EST. 10827’ inside the USDA mark of inspection.
The products being recalled are white cardboard boxes weighing 10 pounds and ‘containing Old World Italian Sausage’.
Some of the boxes have ‘rope’ handwritten on the case, referring to the way the sausages have been divided up, while other lots have ‘link’ written on the boxes.
The government agency designated the recall as Class I, describing it as a ‘health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.’