Pork Sausage Sold in 11 States on Recall

A Packaged meat company in the United States is being forced to recall their pork sausage products. The Smithfield Packing Company is recalling about 38, 000 pounds of there inventory. The reason for the recall is because it may contain different fragments of plastic. The plastic in the meat will most likely be fragments of plastic gloves. The announcement was just made this Thursday after the U.S. Food Safety Inspection found the plastic fragments.

Sausage Feast (Photo credit: danpeters)

These sausages were sold in a total of 11 states. They were also sold I the District of Columbia. The recalled products are sold in 1 pound packages. Specifically, they are a Gwaltney mild pork sausage roll. The packages affected have a use by date of March 12, 2013. Each package has a case code of 78533109741. They bear the establishment number Est. 221-A inside the U.S. Department of Agriculture mark of inspection.

The company found out about the problems when 2 customers filed a complaint with the Food Safety and Inspection Service. Fortunately there have been no complaints of injuries. The products were distributed in Alabama, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.

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Table in Highway Causes Major Pileup

English: Car accident near Dammsjön, Säter Municipality, Sweden. Svenska: Trafikolycka nära Dammsjön, Säters kommun, Sverige. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On Wednesday, a loss table in the middle of the freeway led to 5 vehicle pileup. The accident caused a delay in traffic for about an hour. Luckily, this 5 car accident did not involve any major injuries.

The accident happen at 11 a.m. when a driver in a pickup truck heading south bound lost a table in the interstate 15.  The table was not secure properly on the bed of the vehicle. The table flew off the truck and land in the middle of the five lane freeway.

A red automobile tried to avoid colliding with the table but failed.  A following utility truck then tried to avoid the red vehicle was rear-ended by a pickup truck that was hauling a trailer. The pickup truck hauling the trailer was following too closely. As a result of the impact, the utility truck slid to the right and overturned.

Unfortunately, a man driving an SUV was following a minivan too closely and struck it after the minivan slowed down. Cpl. Todd R. Johnson with the Utah Highway Patrol said “Among all those, there were no injuries; I think the worst was just a scratch on someone’s hand. ” He continued and said “The person responsible for the table circled back, as I understand, and came in and identified themselves as losing the table.”

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