MARLER BLOG: Food Safety & Defense Alerts - Con Agra Banquet Outbreak Bulletin - 135 Salmonella typhimurium illnesses in 35 States - (Marler Blog)

October 9, 2007 – 6:16 pm

Interestingly, Con Agra does not do a recall of its Salmonella Pot Pies, but instead tells customers to return the product or throw it away. I guess FSIS/USDA is tired of doing recalls since it has spent the last two weeks assisting in the recall of nearly 23,000,000 pounds of hamburger?
I have an idea - since Con Agra and USDA/FSIS are not doing a recall, why not mail the Salmonella Pot Pies directly to your Congressman or Senator? Remember, “we have the safest food supply in the world.”
Filling: Chicken broth (water, chicken flavor [chicken stock, salt, hydrolyzed soy protein, flavors, autolyzed yeast extract, chicken fat, cooked chicken powder, whey protein concentrate and citric acid), cooked chicken (chicken meat, chicken, water, salt, sodium triphosphate), carrots, potatoes (calcium chloride), mechanically separated chicken (mechanically separated chicken, sodium tripolyphosphate, natural flavoring, citric acid), contains 2% or less of the following: modified food starch, peas, […]


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