Fears of metal-tainted meat prompt recall of 28,000 pounds of Jimmy Dean sausage nationwide
Source: W Post
By Alex Horton
More than 28,000 pounds of Jimmy Dean sausage has been recalled over metal tainting fears in meat distributed to 21 states, the company said Tuesday, in a move to protect consumers from products that pose the greatest health risk under the Agriculture Department’s recall regulations.
Five consumer complaints of metal-infused sausage led the agency’s food safety office to trigger the alert, the USDA said, after the sausage left a Tennessee-based facility and was distributed across the country. No health impacts have been reported as of Tuesday, the agency said.
CTI Foods, the product distributor, began the recall of Jimmy Dean ready-to-eat sausage links made from turkey and pork. The company did not return a request for comment.
The USDA assigned the recall a Class I, the most serious classification spectrum. Products recalled under that designation are health hazards that pose a “reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2018/12/11/fears-metal-tainted-meat-prompt-recall-pounds-jimmy-dean-sausage-nationwide/?utm_term=.d7458d10359f
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So long as most of our food comes to us from relatively few companies with large, centralized production facilities, this is a problem that will occur again and again. If there is contamination at a centralized facility, it can affect far more people than if we get our food from smaller, local producers. Instead of a bunch of giant corporate farms shipping their lettuce to a centralized processing facility, then shipping it back out tainted, you could be getting lettuce from smaller producers, and then an e-coli breakout in Iowa won't affect lettuce in Tennessee.
Very few corporations own most of the companies that provide food to many people:
"We've determined that Jimmy Dean Sausage now qualifies as an FDA-approved iron supplement for your diet" and,
"we highly recommend this product because of the many jobs it supports".
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