Food Recall: Five Corners Meat Ground Beef & Pork

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Canada/Ottawa: Five Corners Meat Company Ltd., a Chilliwack, British Columbia establishment, recalls certain batch/lots of Canada 653 branded Ground Beef and Pork Meat from the Canadian marketplace due to suspected plastic fragment contamination and consequential risks of choking, oral injury, internal ingestion, GI tract laceration damage, bowel obstruction/perforation and sepsis, all serious health and safety hazards.

CFIA: https://tinyurl.com/469rn25c

Direct link: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/canada-653-brand-ground-meat-recalled-due-pieces-plastic

Additional information:
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (“CFIA”) reports the following Meat products are subject to this Quick Look recall:

• Canada 653 branded Medium Ground Beef Pork Blend, sold in variable size packages with a best-before date code of 24/03/22 and a UPC that contains “16697”
• Canada 653 branded Regular Ground Beef, sold in 454 gram (~one-pound) packages with a best-before date code of 24/03/22 and a UPC of 0 062639 375195
• Canada 653 branded Extra Lean Ground Beef, sold in 454 gram (~one-pound) packages with a best-before date code of 24/03/22 and a UPC of 0 062639 375201
• Canada 653 branded Lean Ground Beef, sold in 454 gram ~(one-pound) packages with a best-before date code of 24/03/22 and a UPC of 0 056364 902603

These Ground Beef and Pork products were known to be marketed, distributed and sold in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Yukon Territories, although it is always possible these food products had wider distribution within the country. When in doubt, please contact the manufacturer for specific product information.

In general, if glass, plastic or metal fragments are ingested, they could cut the mouth, stomach or other parts of the GI tract, cause intestinal perforation or serious infection and possibly require surgical intervention for their safe removal.

==> Never depend on your senses of sight, smell, taste or touch to confirm food poisoning, adulteration or contamination. If in doubt about the safety of any food, return it to your retailer for refund or toss it out in your household garbage, making sure neither small children nor household pets can access the suspect food.

Proposed Remedy:
If you believe you have purchased or have in your possession any of the recalled Canada 653 branded Ground Beef and/or Pork Meat products, please do not consume them directly nor use them as an ingredient in another dish or preparation. Instead, kindly return the product to the store where you purchased it for a full refund.

==> If you have a medical emergency, please contact 9-1-1, your closest hospital or emergency center equipped to properly treat choking, oral injury, internal ingestion, GI tract laceration damage, bowel obstruction/perforation and sepsis.

If you have any questions about this recall, please contact Five Corners Meat Co. at +1-604-701-3041 during normal business hours Pacific Standard Time (“PST”), Monday to Friday.

If you have any further questions, comments or complaints about this recall, please e-mail the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (“CFIA”) at information@inspection.gc.ca. You can also reach the CFIA toll-free at 1-800-442-2342 (Canada and US) or +1-613-773-2342 (local or international) during normal business hours, Eastern Standard Time.

If you are a member of the press/media working on this story, you can reach the CFIA at +1-613-773-6600 or by e-mail at cfia.media.acia@inspection.gc.ca.

==> To see other recalls and notifications caused by contaminated, adulterated or mislabeled Ground Beef, please search for “beef” or more generically, “meat” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> To see other recalls and notifications caused by contaminated, adulterated or mislabeled Ground Pork, please search for “pork” or more generically, “meat” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> To see other recalls and notifications caused by suspected Plastic or Metal Fragment contamination, please search for “plastic” or “metal” or more generically, “fragment” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> To see other recalls and notifications concerning Choking hazards, please search for “choking” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> To see other recalls and notifications concerning Ingestion hazards, please search for “ingestion” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> To see other recalls and notifications concerning Laceration hazards, please search for “laceration” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> To see other recalls and notifications concerning bowel obstruction/perforation hazards, please search for “bowel” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> To see other recalls and notifications concerning Sepsis hazards, please search for “sepsis” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> This is a “Quick Look” notification for a recall or public health warning published by the relevant government authority. For complete information concerning this notification, please consult the source at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (“CFIA”) Web site listed above.

==> To see other recalls and notifications for products manufactured, marketed and/or sold by Five Corners Meat Company Ltd., please search for “Five Corners Meat” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> To see other recalls and notifications for products manufactured, marketed and/or sold under the Canada 653 brand name, please search for “Canada 653” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

French/Français:
You can also read about this recall in French here (“ACIA”):
https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/fr/avis-rappel/rappel-base-poulet-en-pate-marque-block-barrel-en-raison-presence-morceaux-plastique-et

Vous pouvez également lire ce rappel en français ici (“ACIA”):
https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/fr/avis-rappel/rappel-base-poulet-en-pate-marque-block-barrel-en-raison-presence-morceaux-plastique-et

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More information about this recall:
CFIA/ACIA reference number: RA-75267
Canadian Food Inspection Agency ID: 15968
Recalls Direct RIN: 18218-2024
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