Agriculture official calls U.S. meat supply safe - (Wall Street Journal/Associated Press)
October 1, 2007 – 6:29 pmWASHINGTON — Richard Raymond, the Agriculture Department’s undersecretary of food safety, was cited as telling CBS’s “The Early Show” today that the U.S. meat supply is “the safest in the world,” a U.S. agriculture official as he sought to reassure consumers following the recall of 21.7 million pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
Raymond was further cited as saying that while an investigation found inadequate E.coli safety measures at the Topps Meat Co. plant in New Jersey, where the beef was processed, the government was on top of the problem, adding, “I think the American meat supply is the safest in the world. A recall like this does show that we are on the job, we are doing our inspections, our investigation, and we respond when we find problems to make sure that supply is safe.”
The recall came after more than a dozen people in […]
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