The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a public health alert Thursday for various meat and poultry products illegally imported from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
These products, discovered in retail locations across Arizona, California, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas, lack the required USDA mark of inspection and establishment number, making them ineligible for sale in the United States, according to FSIS.
FSIS identified the issue during routine surveillance at a retail store, where meat and poultry products from Myanmar—a country not authorized to export such items to the U.S.—were found on shelves.
The items, some labeled in Burmese, include:
- 180-g cans labeled “BEST BEEF CURRY”
- 425-g cans labeled “BEST Chicken Biryani”
- 360-g cans labeled “Hti Mi Gwik Dry MoHinGa Paste”
- 425-g cans labeled “BEST Myanmar Duck Blood”
- 400-g cans labeled “Eain Chak MoHinGa Paste”
- 160-g vacuum-sealed packages labeled “Min Thar Gyi Dried Fish”
- 400-g cans labeled “Eain Chak Coconut Soup Paste”