India, May 31 -- More than 100 tons of beef stew are being urgently recalled across the U.S. after fragments of wood were found in the product. Hormel Foods, the Minnesota-based company behind popular brands like Spam and Old Smokehouse, is pulling cans of its Dinty Moore beef stew from shelves as a precaution to protect consumers.

The FDA warned that the recalled beef stew contained "hard or sharp foreign objects in food may cause traumatic injury including laceration and perforation of tissues of the mouth, tongue, throat, stomach and intestine as well as damage to the teeth and gums," as reported by Daily Mail.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) advised that the contaminated food should not be consumed. While the small pie...