The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has issued a recall for all meat products produced by the Ballinwillin House Farm brand.
In a statement on the matter, the authority said:
“All venison, wild boar and goat minced meat and meat preparations from Ballinwillin House Farm, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork are being recalled as they were processed in an establishment that is not approved for the production of minced meat or meat preparations.
The products were produced without relevant HACCP based procedures and were not subject to official controls.
Listed under Category 1 (“For Action”), the recall affects all batch codes and use-by dates of products listed below with an approval number of IE-2930-EC.
Consumers are advised not to eat products from the brand including: venison burgers; venison mince; venison sausages; wild boar sausages; wild boar burgers; wild boar mince; goat burgers; or goat mince.
For manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, caterers and retailers, the FSAI says:
Retailers are requested to remove the implicated products from sale and to display a point-of-sale recall notice in stores where the affected products were sold.
“Wholesalers/distributors are requested to contact their affected customers and recall the affected products and provide a point-of-sale recall notice to their retailer customers.”
Finally, the authority says: “Caterers should not use the implicated products.”