WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it seized more than 1,500 cases of human and animal food products stored in Wisconsin under unsanitary conditions.
The FDA-regulated foods were confiscated at Mid-States Closeouts, a distribution warehouse in Ellsworth, Wis., under a federal warrant.
"U.S. Marshals seized all FDA-regulated human and animal food susceptible to rodent and pest contamination or other filth," FDA officials said in a statement. "The products are adulterated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act because they have been held under (unsanitary) conditions whereby they may have become contaminated with filth."
During inspections conducted late last year, the FDA said it found widespread and active rodent infestation, numerous gnawed packages of human and animal food, rodent excreta pellets on, in, and around food packages and rodent nesting material. In addition, the warehouse also had structural defects permitting easy pest access to the entire facility.
