Ineligible Meat and Poultry Products Illegally recalled by FSIS

Timeline

Companies usually start a recall weeks before the FDA classifies and publishes it; the gap above is that lag.

Reason for recall

Array. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for various meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. FSIS is continuing to investigate how these products entered the country. The following products are subject to the public health alert, regardless of the product date. View labels in Burmese. 180-g. cans containing “BEST BEEF CURRY.” 425-g. cans containing “BEST Chicken Biryani.” 360-g. cans containing “Hti Mi Gwik Dry MoHinGa Paste.” 425-g. cans containing “BEST Myanmar Duck Blood.” 400-g. cans containing “Eain Chak MoHinGa Paste.” 160-g. vacuum sealed clear packages containing “Min Thar Gyi Dried Fish.” 400-g. cans containing “Eain Chak Coconut Soup Paste.” The products subject to the public health alert do not bear an establishment number nor a USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to retail locations in Arizona, California, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. The problem was discovered when FSIS was performing surveillance activities at a retailer and found meat and poultry products from Myanmar that are not eligible to be exported to the U.S. There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a health care provider. FSIS is concerned that some product may be in consumers' pantries and on r

Packaging recalls include wrong labels, wrong products in the wrong bottle, missing leaflets, short-filled or empty capsules and seals that fail.

Product as listed by the USDA

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Where it was distributed

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