Food Safety recall round-up 9-15 January
Plastic in ground beef
14 January - USA: J & G Foods is recalling 33,948 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with plastic materials.
The ground beef products were produced on December 23, 2014 and are 1-lb. vacuum sealed packages of “Wegmans Organic 93% Lean/7% Fat Grass-Fed Ground Beef” and 3-pack containing three 1-lb packages of “Wegmans Organic 93% Lean/7% Fat Grass-Fed Ground Beef”.
They were shipped to retail locations in Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
The problem was discovered after the firm received consumer complaints through retail establishments that it contained small malleable plastic pieces but FSIS and the company have received no reports of adverse reactions.
