Posted: July 21st, 2007 - 9:02pm by Doug Powell

Castleberry's Food Company, an Augusta, Ga., establishment owned by Bumble Bee Foods, LLC, is voluntarily expanding its July 19 recall  of canned meat products that may contain Clostridium botulinum, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today.

The recall is being expanded after information gathered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and FSIS indicated that processing malfunctions at the establishment have existed longer than initially estimated.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with reps from FSIS, held a conference call for reporters at 6:30 Eastern, p.m. FDA reps said they wanted to get this information out to consumers because of the serious risk of botulism from these products, based on inspections run by USDA and FDA on Saturday.

FDA recommended that anyone with these products double-bag them and dispose of them -- do not recycle. The canning line also produced dog food, which is why the recall was expanded to dog food products.

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