Or, the Meat Industry believes that it is the consumer’s responsibility to get cow shit out of its product. Seriously, can you think of one consumer product that the manufacturer expects you to fix it, AFTER they make it, and BEFORE you use it.
I just read an article in “Cattle Networks” about industry irresponsibility
In an effort to avoid responsibility for sickening nearly 100 of its customers (mostly children), Roberts American Gourmet, the manufacturer of Veggie Booty, has sued at least two of the upstream suppliers of ingredients. Attached below is the “Third-Party Complaint.” Looks like others will be joining the “party.”
So far, it does not directly implicate
Janie Gabbett of Meatingplace.com wrote an interesting article about the increase in the number of E. coli O157:H7 cases and USDA’s and FSIS’s response.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is increasing follow-up sampling and food safety assessments at ground beef production plants after a spike in E. coli O157:H7 recalls during June and July, according to Kenneth Petersen, FSIS assistant administrator to the Office of Field Operations.
“In July and August, to determine if [the spike] was random, we doubled our E. coli samples from 1,000 a month to 2,000 a month,” Petersen told Meatingplace.com in an interview. He said that data is now being reviewed and analyzed.
Routine inspections have turned up 16 positives, as of July 31, for E. coli compared to 20 positives during all of 2006. Boosting follow-up testing
The agency will also be increasing its follow-up efforts when a plant tests positive for E. coli. For plants that grind more than 1,000 pounds of beef per day, a positive sample will trigger 16 follow-up samples (one to two per week), plus a food-safety assessment of the facility’s entire food-safety system. Eight follow-up samples will be taken at plants that grind less than 1,000 pounds per day.
“In the past, we haven’t done that routinely. Now we will. If you get a positive, you can expect I’ll be scheduling a food-safety assessment and intensified testing,” Petersen said. The agency is also starting to take a closer look at blade or mechanically tenderized steaks and roasts that are needle-tenderized.
“Our main interest is in needle-injected tenderizing, as it can introduce E. coli,” he said, adding the agency is in the process of considering how to best verify these processes.
Looking for listeria below:Continue Reading FSIS expands inspection efforts following E. coli spike – also tests for Listeria
WASHINGTON, September 5, 2007 – Fairbank Reconstruction Corp., doing business as Fairbank Farms, an Ashville, N.Y., establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately 884 pounds of ground beef products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today. The products subject to recall include:
1.33-pound
Continuing the “Food Safety World Tour,” I have been back in Seattle from Australia for a few days and soon will be off to China, via Seoul and Hong Kong. Jane Genova, “ubberblogger” and I spoke the other day about my upcoming (this Saturday) trip to China, as Jane aptly puts it:
The “China Problem”
Blue Ocean Sardine Tamban is recalled
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) — The Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of Blue Ocean Smoked Indiana Sardine Tamban because of possible contamination.
Everlasting Distributors Inc. of Bayonne, N. J., recalled the uncoded 8-ounce packages of frozen Blue Ocean Smoked Indian Sardine Tamban because they might be contaminated
States with Outbreak-Associated Cases of Salmonella
CDC is collaborating with public health officials in Pennsylvania and other state health departments and the US Food and Drug Administration to investigate a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella serotype Schwarzengrund infections in humans. These human illnesses have been linked with dry pet food produced by Mars Petcare US at
Well, finally made it back from Australia to Seattle and still a bit jet-lagged. By the way, my middle daughter, Olivia, kept a blog about most of the trip. The link to it is HERE. Or, click on the picture of Olivia and Sydney (the youngest) below. Most photos were taken by Morgan, the
Several weeks ago we filed a Complaint on behalf of little Sydney and Cole Scheels who became ill with culture-positive Salmonella and were tied specifically to the Veggie Booty Salmonella outbreak. A few days ago we received the defendant Robert’s American Gourmet Food Inc.’s response (it’s Answer) to poisoning my clients (and presumably all
The New York Times reports that China will clamp down on foods tainted with illegal and excessive chemicals as it seeks to quell domestic and foreign alarm about toxins in meat, seafood and vegetables, the country’s top agriculture official said.
In the People’s Daily, Minister of Agriculture Sun Zhengcai said consumers had no reason to
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