WASHINGTON — The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a public health alert on June 20 for meat sauce products produced without the benefit of inspection.

The producing establishment, Thompson’s Spanish Sauce Manufacturing LLC, Marion, Ind., does not have a federal grant of inspection, according to FSIS.

The company was unavailable to confirm their actions to remove the affected products from commerce, FSIS said, so the agency is issuing the health alert.

FSIS plans to work with the company to conduct effectiveness checks to verify customers are notified and ensure no affected products are still available to consumers.

The following meat sauce products are subject to the public health alert:

• 16-oz jars of “Thompson’s B-K Spanish Sauce.”
• 16-oz jars of “Thompson’s B-K Spicey Coney Sauce.”

The products do not bear a USDA mark of inspection. They were sold to distribution and retail locations in Illinois and Indiana and were further distributed to farmers’ markets.

FSIS discovered the problem while conducting routine surveillance activities at a retailer in Roann, Ind., where FSIS investigators identified that the thermally-processed meat sauce products were for sale without a federal mark of inspection.

FSIS noted that there have been no confirmed reports of illness due to consumption of the products.