April 7, 2009
US firm recall chicken products over ineligibility for import
Perk-Up, a New York corporation, is recalling 114,540 pounds of chicken base products that were ineligible for import to the US, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
Perk-Up is recalling these products because the chicken base products do not meet poultry products inspection or poultry exemption requirements.
Specifically, it could not be determined that the poultry ingredients used in the chicken base products were prepared under inspection as required by federal regulations or under an eligible foreign inspection system determined to be equivalent.
The poultry ingredient is determined to be ineligible when the source of the ingredients cannot be determined.
The products subject to recall include 5-pound pails of "PANDA BRAND CHICKEN BASE CONCENTRADO DE CALDO DE POLLO" and 5-pound bags of "PANDA BRAND CHICKEN BASE CONCENTRADO DE CALDO DE POLLO".
The chicken base products were imported from China on various dates from May 2008 to September 2008. The chicken base products were sent to distribution establishments nationwide.
The problem was discovered after FSIS personnel identified the chicken base products in the marketplace.
