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Massive Meat Recall Includes Hot Dogs, Bacon
Newser • • business
Key Points:
- Kayem Foods is recalling approximately 1.6 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products, including hot dogs, bacon, brisket, ham, and chicken sausage, due to a warehouse cooling failure that led to potential "temperature abuse."
- The USDA has classified this as a Class I recall, indicating a "reasonable probability" of serious health risks or death from consuming the affected products, which were produced between March 31 and October 7 and distributed nationwide and to Hong Kong.
- Consumers are advised to discard or return the recalled items, which bear specific USDA establishment numbers, as no illnesses have been reported yet; the issue was identified following a complaint about warm product temperatures on October 1.
- Food safety experts caution that proper cooking may not eliminate all risks, emphasizing that food safety cannot be determined by appearance, smell, or taste, and that questionable food should never be tasted to assess safety.
