A sheriff’s bomb squad was sent to a military recruiter’s office in Lemon Grove Wednesday morning to check a suspicious package that turned out to be a box of sausages, authorities said.

Deputies were called to the office in a strip mall along Federal Boulevard at College Avenue at 8:40 a.m. to check a box left outside the door of the U.S. Navy recruiter’s office, sheriff’s officials said.

The building was evacuated, and the bomb-arson unit was sent in at 9:20 a.m.

California Highway Patrol officers closed the off-ramp from eastbound state Route 94 at College Avenue until shortly before 11 a.m. Pedestrians still were not allowed into the mall area, a sheriff’s dispatcher said.

A bomb technician in protective gear checked the box shortly before noon and determined it contained sausages, a sheriff’s official said.