The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is urging consumers not to eat certain pork, beef, and goat meat products after it found that nearly 168,000 pounds were labeled with false inspection marks. 

This false labeling means that the meat’s safety cannot be guaranteed, and in the worst-case scenario, consuming it could cause serious adverse health consequences, including death.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a notice alerting the public that approximately 167,639 pounds of raw pork, beef, and goat products bearing false establishment numbers were distributed nationwide. 

These false USDA marks of inspection mean that the meat included in the recall did not undergo legally required safety inspections, the notice states.

Because of that, the meat’s safety cannot be guaranteed, so it is treated as unsafe to consume.

The FSIS has thus given the recall a Class 1 designation, which the agency says means “there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.”

The meat is being recalled by Star Meat Delivery Inc., which shipped the items to the Georgia-based distributor A&D Foods, the notice states. Those meats were then distributed to restaurants and retailers nationwide.

Though the FSIS mentions the meat products “bear false marks of inspection with establishment number ‘EST. 1363,’ which does not have a federal grant of inspection,” the agency does not say who exactly applied the false marks to the meat’s packaging. 

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