WASHINGTON: Brasher: Big beef recalls test trust of USDA worldwide - (Des Moines Register)
February 25, 2008 – 8:29 pmhttp://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080224/BUSINESS/802240319/-1/SPORTS01
Washington, D.C.–Larry Pope, chief executive of Smithfield Foods, the nation’s fifth-largest beef packer and the No. 1 processor of pork, stopped in at a Starbucks after the government announced the largest meat recall in history and got the kind of question a meatpacking executive must dread.
“Should we be eating any more beef?” asked the woman behind the counter.
Pope was quoted as warning a conference of agribusiness leaders that, “Every time an incident like this happens, it hurts everybody in this room.” Consumers “trust that USDA stamp a little bit less. When we go overseas they trust the United States a little bit less.”
Getting that trust back may not be easy.
After a rash of E. coli-related recalls last year, U.S. Agriculture Department officials acknowledged that they didn’t really know what controls meatpackers were using to prevent E. coli contamination.
The admission came five years after the department required an industrywide crackdown on […]
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