Colorado Company Recalls Meat and Poultry After Deemed Unfit for Consumption

After its meat and poultry products were deemed unfit for human consumption, a Colorado company is recalling its meat and poultry products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday. 

According to the report the meat were produced in unsanitary conditions that included rodent activity.

The products in the expanded recall have the establishment number "Est. 20309" inside the USDA Mark of Inspection and include "Old Style Sausage" brand smoked Kielbasa sausage, "Old Style Sausage" brand smoked andouille sausage and "Corner Post Meats" brand hams and bacon, the Associated Press reported.

All of the recalled products from Yauk's Specialty Meats in Windsor are in retail-ready packages of various sizes and were produced between April 1, 2013 and Dec. 5, 2013. They were sold in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

No illnesses have been reported and the USDA's investigation is continuing, the AP said.

Three current or former paint manufacturers and distributors have been ordered to pay $1.1 billion into a fund to remove lead paint-related hazards from hundreds of thousands of California homes.

The ruling by a California Superior Court judge in San Jose against Sherwin Williams. Co., NL Industries Inc. and ConAgra Grocery Products Co. came in a 13-year-old lawsuit filed by 10 city and county governors in California, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The three companies have 15 days to file objections to the decision and said they plan to appeal the ruling unless the judge declares a mistrial or agrees to hold a new trial. The judge dismissed two other defendants in the lawsuit, DuPont Co. and Atlantic-Richfield Co.

The ruling also ordered the creation of a fund to remove lead paint hazards from homes. The fund would be administered by California's existing state Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch program, WSJ reported.

While not requiring the removal of all lead paint from homes, the cleanup plan does order that lead be removed from areas where friction may release lead dust, such as window frames and doors.

The ruling will have a "tremendous impact on the health and welfare of the children of California," said Nancy Fineman, a lawyer representing local governments who filed the suit, WSJ reported.