Jimmy Dean recalls nearly 30,000 pounds of sausage over fears of contamination with ‘strings of metal’
- The company voluntarily recalled 29,000 pounds of frozen sausage products on Monday
- Several complaints about bits of metal in pork and poultry sausages were made to the USDA
- The recall affects frozen meet products meant to be used by January 31
- So far, no one has reported injuries or illnesses from the meats
Sausage-maker Jimmy Dean has recalled over 29,000 pounds of meat after customers complained of bits of metal in the products.
Beginning on December 10, five people filed complaints with the US Department of Agriculture that they had found metal in Jimmy Dean frozen sausage links.
Jimmy Dean is warning consumers that there were small ‘string-like’ metal fragments in some packages of poultry and pork sausage that were prepared in August and have a use-by date of January 31 2019.
No one has been hurt but, depending on the kind of metal found in the meat, it could be a choke, cut or even be poisonous to a consumer.
Packages of sausage and poultry ‘Heat ‘n Serve’ sausage links from Jimmy Dean are being voluntarily recalled by the company after five people reported finding metal in the products
Food manufacturing is a carefully monitored but dangerous process.
Contamination in food claims over 3,000 lives a year and makes another 48 million people sick every year.
This year alone has seen illnesses from romaine, meat, cereal and, now, sausage.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have finally declared romaine safe to eat again after deeming all of the lettuce dangerous for salmonella contamination.
Now, it says that only romaine from California should be avoided.
And just as soon as the lettuce is safe, now a form of frozen meat may pose a new danger.
Customers described frightening ribbons of metal lacing the popular sausage links.
Even small bits of metal can cause throat lacerations.
These dangerous shards were found in 23.4 oz packages of ‘Jimmy Dean HEAT ‘n SERVE Original SAUSAGE LINKS Made with Pork & Turkey.’
They were labeled to be sold by January 31, 2019 and sent from a packing plant to Tennessee.
From there 2,845 cases of the sausages they were distributed to retail stores.
If you have purchased any of these products, the USDA and Jimy Dean are urging that you throw out the sausage links ‘out of an abundance of caution,’ the food company says on its website.