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FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Meat Sauce Products Produced Without the Benefit of Inspection

Public Health Alert (active) USDA FSIS Public health alert Labeling or regulatory

Read the agency's notice · machine-readable source record · Agency id: PHA-06202025-01

What the agency said

Product
16-oz. jars of “Thompson's B-K Spanish Sauce.”
Firm: Not named (public health alert)
Reason, as written
Produced Without Benefit of Inspection
Status, as written
Public Health Alert (active)
Distribution, as written
IL

How this record is classified

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Hazard type
Labeling or regulatory
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules
Organism, allergen, or material
None named
Not stated by the agency
Product category
Meat
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules
Geography
Single state
Stated by the agency
IL
Root cause
Import or inspection violation
Coded by the agency
“Produced Without Benefit of Inspection”
How it was found
Agency sampling or inspection
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules
“The problem was discovered during routine FSIS surveillance activities at a retail location in Roann, Ind.”
Corrective action
Public health alert
Stated by the agency
FSIS issued a public health alert instead of requesting a recall
Status
Public Health Alert (active)
Open in this dataset's terms
An administrative status: it tracks whether the agency has formally closed the record, not whether the product is still on shelves. Recalls often stay open for years after the food is gone.
Dates
Recall began: Jun 20, 2025
Reported by agency: Jun 20, 2025
Last agency update: Jun 20, 2025

What is missing or inferred

Fields the source did not provide. They are shown as "not stated", never estimated.

Fields assigned by our rules from the agency's wording: hazardType, agents, productCategory, detection. Rules version 1.0.

Record history

First seen by this site Sep 17, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC (loaded from the agency's history when the dataset was first built). Last changed Sep 17, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC. No tracked field has changed since.

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