USA MEAT RECALL
May 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIEONLY half of tainted meat subject to formal recalls in the United States from 1998 to 2002 was actually returned, according to a recent study at Ohio State University, published in the Food Control journal, which has questioned the safety of the current system. The study said that whilst the federal government introduced a three-year programme to reduce food hazards in 1998, records from the US Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service show that the success rate of recalls were "fairly consistent at about 50 per cent over the ...
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