Pork products from Smithfield Foods' Tar Heel, North Carolina facility are not eligible for export to Canada until further notice. According to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, meat products originating from the establishment on or after March 6 will not be permitted to enter into the country.
Ray Atkinson, senior director of external communications for the company, says the issue pertains to a limited number of certain offal shipments. Smithfield is working with USDA FSIS to expedite the resolution of this matter.
No other Smithfield Foods facilities or U.S. pork processing plants were named in the FSIS announcement.