I am not sure but if you look up the four “food groups” in Louisiana you might find that sausage is one of them. Food is such an important part of the Louisiana lifestyle that anytime there is an issue with sausage residents of The Boot have to pay attention.
Whether it’s chicken and sausage gumbo around Lawtell, Lafayette, Lake Charles, or Abbeville. Or just a great sausage po-boy like the kinds you’ll find in Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Monroe, or Alexandria, sausage is an important part of our diet.
The folks at the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service are now asking us to take a closer look at the sausage we are buying and may have purchased over the past few weeks. The FSIS has issued a recall on certain brands and specific sausage recipes over concerns about possible foreign matter contamination.
The foreign matter of concern consists of small pieces of hard plastic that could have been accidentally included as the product was going through the production process. The FSIS issued the recall after examining two consumer complaints that foreign material, hard plastic, had been discovered in packages of the sausage in question.
The product and brand of sausage that the Food Safety Inspection Service is recalling comes from the Johnsonville Brand of Sausages. In particular, the recall affects the 19-ounce sealed firm tray packages containing five pieces of “Johnsonville BRATS CHEDDAR Bratwurst”. The packaging looks like this:
According to the USDA/FSIS recall it is believed that the affected items were shipped mainly to retail outlets in Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Tennessee, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin, but it is possible that some of the product could have been distributed to other locales as well.
Consumers should check their freezers for products like this and if there is any question as to whether the product is safe or not you may call Johnsonville’s Consumer Relations Coordinator by dialing 888-556-2728…