The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service or FSIS has issued a public health alert against various meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, a country ineligible to export such products to the United States.
The agency said it is continuing to investigate how these products entered the country.
The products and labels subject to the public health alert, regardless of the product date, mainly come under Grandma brand.
They include Grandma Style Sardine in Tomato Sauce 400 g, Fried Carp with Curry Paste 100 g, Anabas Curry 130 g, Steamed Carp Fish 130 g, Fish with Salt 100 g, and Chickpea Curry 400 g, among others; as well as San Pya Daw Kyi (contains catfish) 200 g and Hti Mi Gwi Mawlamyine Mohinga (catfish) 360 g. A good number of Grandma products have additional stickers with a different name.
Meanwhile, the impacted products do not bear any import marks on the labels. These items were shipped to retail locations across the United States.
The problem was discovered when FSIS was performing routine surveillance activities at a retailer and found meat and poultry products from Myanmar that are not eligible to be exported to the U.S.
However, there have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products so far.
Over concern that some product may be in consumers’ pantries and on retailers’ shelves, the agency urged retailers not to sell and consumers not to consume them. They are asked to throw away the impacted products or return them to the place of purchase.
Source: RTTNews
