The majority of USSTCs product varieties remain available, and we are working as quickly as possible to replenish our stock for our consumers and trade partners. USSTC initiated the recall after eight customers from six states complained about finding foreign metal objects, including sharp metal objects found in select cans. In a press release, Richmond, Va.-based Altria Group, USSTCs parent company, said that in each case, the object was visible to the consumer, and there have been no reports of consumer injury
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Tobacco is grown worldwide only in select regions whose climate conditions support the plant, meaning it must be shipped significant distances to the consumers who choose to smoke them
Similarly, unweighted UniFrac distance-based PCo revealed a significant separation between smokeless-tobacco- and non-consuming samples across PCo-2 (PERMANOVA, R 2 = 0.03099, p -value = 0.001, Supplementary Figure S2B )