USDA issues public warning about Thompson’s meat sauces

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for meat sauce products produced without the benefit of federal inspection. 

The producer, Thompson’s Spanish Sauce Manufacturing LLC in Marion, IN, does not have a federal grant of inspection. FSIS is issuing a public health alert because the company was unavailable to confirm their actions to remove affected products from commerce. FSIS will continue to work with the company and conduct effectiveness checks to verify customers are notified and ensure no affected products are available to consumers.

The following meat sauce products are subject to the public health alert (view labels):   

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

These products do not bear the USDA mark of inspection. The items were sold to distribution and retail locations in Illinois and Indiana, and were further distributed to certain farmers’ markets.  

The problem was discovered during routine FSIS surveillance activities at a retail location in Roann, Ind., where FSIS investigators identified these thermally-processed meat sauce products for sale without a federal mark of inspection.

There have been no confirmed reports of illness due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a healthcare provider. 

FSIS is concerned that some product may be in consumers’ refrigerators, freezers, or pantries. Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. 

These products should be thrown away.

Consumers with questions about the public health alert can contact Michael Thompson, owner, Thompson’s Spanish Sauce Manufacturing, LLC, at mikeyts@icloud.com.

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