Meat recall not needed, agencies say

Two federal agencies said a continuing investigation affirmed that the risk to humans was very low from hogs that might have eaten contaminated pet food. They said no recall was warranted.

The government said last week that 345 of 6,000 hogs that might have eaten the food were believed to have been placed on the path to slaughter, but that almost all were still on farms in California, New York and South Carolina.

Those states were told that no meat from any of those hogs could enter the food supply.

"At this time, we have no evidence of harm to humans associated with the processed pork product, and therefore no recall of meat products processed from these animals is being issued," the Food and Drug Administration and Agriculture Department said in a joint statement.