Health alert issued across US after illegal import of duck blood from Myanmar

Illegally imported overseas foods, including duck blood, person been discovered connected American market shop shelves. 

The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued an alert past week over 'ineligible' nutrient and poultry products from Myanmar successful southeast Asia. 

The alert includes 7 products sold by aggregate brands successful cans aliases clear packaging and see duck blood, dried fish, beef curry, chickenhearted biryani, 2 types of food paste and coconut crockery paste. 

The FSIS said nan products were shipped to retailers successful Arizona, California, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.  

Myanmar is not allowed to export nutrient aliases dairy products into nan US and nan agency is investigating really nan forbidden products made it into nan country.

The products - which are listed astatine nan bottommost of this article - were first detected erstwhile FSIS was performing surveillance astatine retailers and recovered nan products connected shelves. 

The agency has urged retailers not to waste nan products but is concerned different retailers whitethorn beryllium unknowingly trading them and customers whitethorn already person them successful their homes. 

The FSIS said location person been nary reports of adverse reactions owed to nan depletion of these products. 

The FSIS' alert also said nan products included successful nan nationalist wellness alert do not person an constitution number aliases a USDA people of inspection. 

An FSIS spokesperson told Newsweek: 'Meat and poultry products from Myanmar are not eligible to beryllium exported to nan United States. 

Since nan merchandise was identified and is being removed from commerce, nan consequence to nationalist wellness is considered low.

'To import meat, poultry, aliases ovum products to nan U.S., products must originate from certified countries and establishments eligible to export to nan United States.'

This is not nan first clip this twelvemonth nan FSIS has issued a nationalist wellness alert for products. In August, nan agency published an alert for 17 products imported from Myanmar.

The items were sold nether nan marque sanction Grandma and included an array of curries, chicken, food paste, fermented soybeans and fish. 

The US has placed sanctions connected exports from Myanmar successful narration to aggregate industries, including food, cultivation products, jewels and definite building materials owed to forbidden sourcing practices aliases inadequate inspection processes.

The nationalist wellness alert comes amid accrued concerns astir America's nutrient proviso chain, nutrient products and nutrient safety.

In different nationalist wellness alert from nan CDC, nan agency is search a nationwide outbreak of E.coli from McDonald's that has sickened 75, including 2 group hospitalized pinch a superior information that tin origin kidney failure.

One personification has died. 

The outbreak is thought to stem from nan onions utilized connected McDonald's Quarter Pounder burgers. 

The accelerated nutrient elephantine has temporarily removed Quarter Pounders from it paper successful definite states owed to a imaginable nutrient information issue.