United States-50 ton chicken meat recall.

UNITED STATES-50 TONS OF POULTRY RECALLED.

White Plains, N.Y.-based Perk-Up Inc. is recalling 114,540 pounds of chicken base products that were ineligible for import, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced.

Perk-Up is recalling these products because the chicken base products do not meet poultry products inspection or poultry exemption requirements. Specifically, it could not be determined that the poultry ingredients used in the chicken base products were prepared under inspection as required by federal regulations or under an eligible foreign inspection system determined to be equivalent.

Products subject to recall include:

5-pound pails of "PANDA BRAND CHICKEN BASE CONCENTRADO DE CALDO DE POLLO." Each container also bears the case code "2700031."

5-pound bags of "PANDA BRAND CHICKEN BASE CONCENTRADO DE CALDO DE POLLO." Each package also bears the case code "2700200."

The chicken base products were imported from China on various dates from May 2008 to September 2008 and were sent to distribution establishments nationwide.

The problem was discovered after FSIS personnel identified the chicken base products in the marketplace. FSIS has received no reports of illness as a result of consuming this product.