COMMENTARY: A memorable food year, especially for recalls - (The Buffalo News)
December 26, 2007 – 6:09 pmJanice Okun writes that, according to the U.S. newspaper and magazine food editors, 2007 was the Year of the Recall.
Okun says that every year, a public relations company in Manhattan sends out a survey to about 900 of us, summarizing the big food stories that broke during the last 12 months so editors can rate the 10 most memorable. Here are the top three that were selected:
1. The national recall of more than 90 brands of pet food. The cuts and gravy style products sold at big national retailers caused more than 450 cases of pet kidney failure and more than 100 deaths. (And nobody really knows what caused them.)
2. The recall of more than 21 million pounds of ground beef from the Topps Meat Co. because of implication in an E. coli outbreak. It ended up being the third-largest hamburger recall in U.S. history and took the 67- year-old […]
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