The USDA issued a public health alert for cans of little Vienna sausages imported by a Medley’s Pure Caribbean Distributors because they’re from Jamaica.
Pure Caribbean Distributors sent the 140g cans of Grace Ready to Eat Chicken Vienna Sausages and Ready to Eat Chicken Vienna Sausages Hot & Spicy to stores in Florida, Texas, Georgia, Maryland and Alabama.
Grace Ready to Eat Chicken Vienna Sausages USDA-Food Safety and Inspection Service
But, the USDA said, the cans were “illegally imported from Jamaica, a country that is not eligible to export meat or poultry products to the United States.
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“The Food Safety and Inspection Service is continuing to investigate how these products entered the country,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. “The problem was discovered during routine FSIS surveillance activities of imported products in commerce.”
Grace Ready to Eat Chicken Vienna Sausage Hot & Spicy USDA-Food Safety and Inspection Service
Direct questions about this alert to Pure Caribbean’s owner, Sandra Campbell, at 305-887-9523 or purecaribbeandist@gmail.com .
This story was originally published October 7, 2026 at 3:40 PM.
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