Sausage Recalled: Smithfield Packing Company Recalls 38,000 Pounds of Pork (VIDEO)

For meat lovers, especially those of the breakfast persuasian, it is a sad day. Smithfield Packing Company, a Virginian group known for its pork products, has recalled around 38,000 pounds of gammon as it may contain pieces of plastics, possibly from gloves workers were using when they were preparing the products.

The recall was announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on Thursday.

The products being recalled include:

- 1-lb. chubs of "Gwaltney mild pork sausage roll" with a use-by date of Mar. 12, 2013

- Cases of "Gwaltney mild pork sausage roll" with a case number of 78533109741

Inside the USDA mark of inspection, the recalled products also contain the establishment number "Est. 221-A." The sausage rolls were created on Jan. 11, 2013.

As for the recall, which was issued after Smithfield received two consumer complaints, fortunately,no suffered injuries have been reported regarding the products so far. The sausages were distributed in Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.

With other products infamously in the limelight for containing bits of glass (Special K Red Berries, anyone?) it might make you wonder if we all shouldn't move to the wilderness and grow our own food. At least if you do end up killing a pig, then you would know aunt Gretchen was properly preparing it...not some robot who accidentally dropped foreign matter into food that may stay lodged in your stomach forever. Just a thought. 

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