Smoked Beef Brisket Recall

WASHINGTONThe USDAs Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that Lone Star Brisket Company, a Thorndale, Texas, firm, is recalling approximately 207 pounds of smoked beef products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The recall involves 2- to 3-pound vacuum packed "Texas Star Meat Company SMOKED BEEF BRISKET Fully Cooked." Each label bears the establishment number "EST. 27340" inside the USDA mark of inspection and a day-glo sticker "Sliced" next to the product label. Each 50-pound case, which can be identified by the case code "222A", contains approximately twenty (20) 2- to 3-pound briskets. The smoked beef brisket products were produced on Aug. 11, 2009 and distributed to Department of Defense commissaries in New Mexico and Oklahoma.

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