Check your chili sauce - Recall notice!

Four people, including two from here in Indiana, were recently hospitalized due to botulism from consuming tainted chili sauce produced by the Castleberry Food Company of Augusta, Georgia. This is a product that we have used regularly in our home.

The recall is for more than 80 types of canned chili, beef stew, corned beef hash and other meat products. Brands included in the recall are Austex, Best Yet, Big Y, Black Rock, Bloom, Bryan, Bunker Hill, Castleberry's, Cattle Drive, Firefighters, Food Club, Food Lion, Goldstar, Great Value, Kroger, Lowes, Meijer, Morton House, Paramount, Piggly Wiggly, Prudence, Southern Home, Steak N Shake, Thrifty Maid, Triple Bar and Value Time. The recall also includes four varieties of Natural Balance dog food.

The Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Thursday that an equipment malfunction may have been responsible for the contamination and that the malfunctions at the Augusta processing facility may have existed longer than initially estimated.

Castleberry's senior vice president Steve Mavity said: "We believe we have isolated the issue to a situation of under-processing on one line of our production facility. As an extra precaution to the recall we announced on Wednesday, we have shut down this line altogether and are recalling all products produced on it."

Consumers with questions about the recall may contact Castleberry's at 1-888-203-8446 or visit their recall notice page.