Transatlantic Foods, Inc. of Andover, N.J., is recalling roughly 222,000 lbs. of pork and poultry products that were not inspected, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) reported. FSIS launched an investigation into the company following an anonymous tip.

Jim Romahn of Canada writes that the owners of the plant, which has no federal meat inspection licence, were using inspection labels from another plant they own in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

The cheating is reminiscent of Richard (Butch) Claire who used federal meat inspection labels from a closed packing plant in Kitchener for products from his Aylmer Meats plant.

Some of the product from Aylmer Meats came from deadstock butchered when there were no provincial meat inspectors around.

As with Aylmer Meats, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it doesn’t know the food-safety status of the meat from the Andover plant because it had no inspectors there.

It says no illnesses have been traced to the pork, poultry and duck fat sold from the plant.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture began investigating after it received an anonymous tip.

That, too, is similar to what unfolded at Aylmer Meats.