The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a sweeping
recall of products from a plant at Andover, New Jersey.
The owners of the plant, which has no federal meat
inspection licence, were using inspection labels from another plant they own in
Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The cheating is reminiscent of Richard (Butch) Claire who
used federal meat inspection labels from a closed packing plant in Kitchener
for products from his Aylmer Meats plant.
Some of the product from Aylmer Meats came from deadstock
butchered when there were no provincial meat inspectors around.
As with Aylmer Meats, the U.S. Department of Agriculture
said it doesn’t know the food-safety status of the meat from the Andover plant
because it had no inspectors there.
It says no illnesses have been traced to the pork, poultry
and duck fat sold from the plant.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture began investigating after
it received an anonymous tip.
That, too, is similar to what unfolded at Aylmer Meats.
