Meat, fish and poultry products are the subject of a public health alert issued by the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), after they were illegally imported to the U.S. from Myanmar.
The FSIS announced on Thursday that six cans and one vacuum-sealed clear package of meat, poultry, curry, pastes, dried fish and duck blood were being illegally sold in nine states across the U.S.
Myanmar is not eligible to export meat or dairy products into the U.S., but surveillance activities undertaken by the FSIS found that these foods, from Myanmar, were being sold in American stores. Its investigation into how these products entered the country is ongoing…