Abstract: A device for use with a sausage stuffer having a first tubular conduit forming a flow passage for sausage mix and a laterally orientated second tubular conduit intersecting and disposed generally normal to said first conduit and laterally offset therefrom, a member positioned within the second conduit and extending entirely across the flow passage and laterally outwardly thereof into said second conduit, said member being provided with a plurality of slotted openings of reduced cross-sectional configuration to entrap undesirable hard particles within sausage mix such as bone, gristle, and the like so that such may be subsequently removed by way of said second conduit.