The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for frozen ready-to-eat pork mortadella products that may have been illegally imported from Ecuador, a country ineligible to export meat and poultry products to the United States.
The problem was discovered when FSIS was performing surveillance activities at a warehouse and found mortadella bologna products that did not have the USDA mark of inspection. FSIS is concerned that some product may be in consumers’ freezers.
FSIS is continuing to investigate the origins of this product, and there may be additional products affected.
These items were shipped to retail and distributor locations in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
Products subject to the public health alert:
- 1-lb. vacuum-sealed packages containing “Mortadela ESPECIAL BOLOGNIA.
The products subject to the public health alert do not bear an establishment number or the USDA mark of inspection.
Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.
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