New food safety issues: from the big houses to your table
Food Safety News feature: Meat Industry told to Brace for 'Big Six' Listing Maybe it was Bill Marler's $500,000 study on non-O157 STECs (finding non-O157 STEC contamination of retail ground beef in about 1% of samples), or maybe it was his petition to USDA-FSIS to finally call a spade a spade and declare that the "big six" non-O157 STECs are "adulterants." Whatever the case, the case for...
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I was reading an article written by a local news agency and had been reminded of a meat recall in Denver this month. A meat distributor named Beef Packers Inc. had to recall ground beef that had possible salmonella poisoning. The part that shocked me is that the meat that was being recalled had a use by date as late as July 8th but was said to be in stores as recently as August. The thought...
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