Food recalls dominate list of nation’s Top Food Stories of 2007 - (Hunter Public Relations)
December 17, 2007 – 4:48 pmNEW YORK — When asked to recall the top food stories of the year, food editors overwhelmingly responded that 2007 will be remembered as the Year of the Recall.
In a recent survey of the country’s top food editors, the national recall of more than 90 brands of popular pet food topped the charts as the No. 1 food-related story of 2007, followed closely by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recall of over 21 million pounds of ground beef and the peanut butter recall by ConAgra Foods, Inc.
The fifth annual year-end survey was conducted by Hunter Public Relations, one of the nation’s leading public relations agencies serving the food and beverage industry. Based in New York, Hunter Public Relations reached out to more than 900 magazine and newspaper food editors across the country and asked them to pick the top ten food-related stories of 2007.
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