Perdue Premium Meat Company, Inc., DBA Alexander & Hornung Recalls Brookside Brand Pre-Cooked Beef Wiener Products Due to Mislabeling and an Undisclosed Allergen

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2023 – Perdue Premium Meat Company, Inc., doing business as Alexander & Hornung, a Saint Clair Shores, Mich., establishment, is recalling approximately 3,204 pounds of pre-cooked beef wiener products due to mislabeling and undeclared allergens, US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The product may actually contain smoked sausage, which contains milk, a known allergen, which is not declared on the Wiener product label.

The pre-cooked steak wiener items were manufactured on May 3, 2023. The following product may be recalled [view label]:

• 2-lbs. Vacuum sealed packages labeled “BROOKSIDE BRAND FULL COOKED NATURAL CASING BEEF WIENERS”[ads1]; with lot code 3121, case code 07658, and sell by date 8/1/23.

The product subject to recall has the establishment number “EST 10125” within the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to retail locations throughout Ohio.

The problem was discovered when the establishment notified FSIS that one of their customers reported receiving products labeled as beef wieners in cartons labeled as hot-smoked sausage. The vacuum-sealed packages labeled as beef wieners were subsequently found to contain smoked sausages.

There have been no confirmed reports of side effects due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an injury or illness should contact a healthcare professional.

FSIS is concerned that some products may be in consumers’ refrigerators. Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be discarded or returned to the place of purchase.

FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify that recall firms are notifying their customers of the recall and that steps are being taken to ensure that the product is no longer available to consumers. When available, the retail distribution lists will be posted on the FSIS website at www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls.

Consumers can call the Alexander & Hornung Consumer Hotline at 1-866-866-3703, and members of the media with questions about the recall can contact Kerri McClimen, vice president of Alexander & Hornung, at 833-900-7762 or email at kerrim@ alexander -hornung.com.

Consumers with food safety questions can call the toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 888-MPHotline (888-674-6854) or live chat via Ask USDA from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Consumers can also browse food safety alerts at Ask USDA or email a question to MPHotline@usda.gov. For consumers who need to report a problem with a meat, poultry or egg product, the online Consumer Complaint Monitoring System is available 24 hours a day at https://foodcomplaint.fsis.usda.gov/eCCF/.