Hot Dogs, Bacon Among 1.5 Million Pounds Of Meat Recalled Nationwide
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Over 1.5 million pounds of meat products have been recalled, and they were shipped nationwide.
On Saturday, Oct. 17, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that it was issuing its most severe classification of a recall for a variety of meat products produced by Kayem Foods Inc., which is based out of Chelsea, Massachusetts.
This recall had been announced one day earlier, on Oct. 16, by Kayem Foods Inc., which noted the voluntary nature of the recall.
Altogether, the recall impacts approximately 1,584,361 pounds of meat and poultry products, which were categorized as “ready-to-eat,” with impacted brands including Kayem, Genoa, Al Fresco, Triple M, McKenzie, Deutschmacher, Jordan’s, and Winnisimmet.
Recalled products from those brands include hot dogs, chicken sausage, bacon, smoked beef brisket, extra lean corn beef, turkey breast, and more.
While the recall was issued in October, affected products were produced as far back as April 31, with Kayem Foods clarifying that the first of those were shipped as early as June 7.
The cause of the recall?
FSIS reports that the recalled products experienced “temperature abuse” during storage, and the recall received the FSIS’ most severe classification.
As a Class I recall, the FSIS notes that the recalled products present “a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.”
According to FSIS’ recall announcement, the temperature problem with Kayem Foods’ products was first identified by a retail customer.
FSIS expounded upon the discovery of the “temperature abuse,” reporting the following:
“The problem was discovered after the firm received a retail customer complaint regarding warm product temperatures at point of delivery on October 1, 2026. The establishment investigated and determined that they stored various RTE meat and poultry products in a warehouse cooler that experienced temperature deviations.”
Presently, no illnesses from these products have been reported, but the FSIS said that it is “concerned that some product may be in consumers’ refrigerators,” advising that products included in the recall should be thrown out or returned at the point of purchase.
Some of the items included in the recall will not expire until early 2027.
View the list of recalled products, here.
Look through a visual directory of the labels of recalled goods, as provided by the FSIS, here.
In Kayem Foods’ press release regarding the recall, Matt Monkiewicz, president and CEO of Kayem Foods, said, “Our business depends on providing consumers with safe food of the highest quality. Out of an abundance of caution, we are undertaking this voluntary recall.”
He added, “We take food safety very seriously and apologize to our valued consumers. Our management team takes full responsibility. We have learned from and corrected the issue and will not allow this to happen again.”
Kayem Foods noted in its press release that it was going beyond just issuing a public announcement of the recall, but said it is “contacting each of its wholesale and retail customers directly with instructions to identify and dispose of the recalled products.”
This is a developing story.
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