Missouri Firm Recalls Ribeye and Carcass Products That May Contain Specified Risk Materials

Recall date

June 11, 2014

Source

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA FSIS)

Recall number

034-2014

FDA classification

Class II

Sold / distributed

New York, Connecticut, Missouri

Why it was recalled

Product Contamination

Class II means using this product may cause temporary or medically reversible health problems; the chance of serious harm is remote.

What was recalled

WASHINGTON, June 11, 2014 Fruitland American Meat, a Jackson, Mo. establishment is recalling approximately 4,012 pounds of fresh beef products because the dorsal root ganglia may not have been completely removed, which is not compliant with agency regulations that require their removal in cattle 30 months of age and older, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products subject to recall include: 40-lb. cases containing two, roughly 20-lb. cryovac packages of bone-in iRain Crow Ranch Ribeye” bearing the establishment number iEST. 2316” inside the USDA mark of inspection with the following production dates: 9/5/13, 9/10/13, 9/11/13, 9/26/13, 10/2/13, 10/3/2013, 11/8/13, 11/22/13, 12/17/13, 12/26/13, 12/27/13,1/16/14, 1/17/14, 1/23/14, 1/31/14, 2/13/14, 2/14/14, 2/21/14, 2/28/14, 3/8/14, 3/20/14, 4/4/14 or 4/25/14 printed on the box. Quartered beef carcasses stamped with the USDA mark of inspection and establishment number iEST. 2316.” The products were produced and packaged on various dates between September 2013 and April 2014. The bone-in ribeye roasts were the source material of concern. Fruitland American Meat advises that the bone-in ribeye roasts were distributed to a restaurant in New York, NY, and a Whole Foods distribution center in Connecticut which services its stores in New England. The quartered carcasses were distributed to an FSIS-inspected establishment in Missouri for further processing and distribution, and to a restaurant in Kansas City, Mo. All products would have been processed into smaller cuts with no identifying consumer packaging. The problem was discovered by FSIS during a review of company slaughter logs. The problem may have occurred as a result of the way some company employees were recording information and determining the age of various cattle. Dorsal root ganglia, branches of the nervous system located in the vertebral column are considered specified risk materials (SRMs) an…