It has come to my attention that if you use raw meat instead of ground proteins, you can reuse that flank of meat repeatedly to assemble infinite sausages with no repercussion. Be sure to use one sausage casing at a time in order to do this.
I assume this is an oversight with food items essentially being reagent containers. So the assembler just keeps popping out a full flank of meat.
There's not really an "issue" per se.... but I just feel like I should tell you. Exploits are just bugs with benefits, right?
Artist's Rendition by me.