The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a public health warning for meat products imported from Burma (also known as Myanmar).
The alert applies to various meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Southeast Asian nation.
“FSIS is continuing to investigate how these products entered the country,” FSIS announced an Oct. 24. The issue came to the notice of the agency when officials were conducting surveillance activities at a retailer and found the meat products, which are “not eligible to be exported to the U.S.”
The products were shipped to retail locations in Arizona, California, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. According to the announcement, the items do not bear an establishment number nor a USDA mark of inspection….