Food companies become frustrated with meat recall - (The Wall Street Journal Online)
February 26, 2008 – 7:48 pmhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB120398817200292275.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
Some food companies are, according to this story, growing frustrated with the government’s handling of the largest meat recall in U.S. history, and a few are holding off on destroying the meat with the hope it could be donated or put back in stores.
The story says that as the beef recall begins working its way through the nation’s food chain, industry officials say it could cost food makers hundreds of millions of dollars and result in some small meat companies going out of business. Some companies, like retailer Costco Wholesale Corp. and food-service firm Advance Food Co., have pulled the meat from circulation but are holding onto it for now.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest food retailer by sales, was cited as saying yesterday it has pulled meat from its stores that was tied to Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co., the meat company that was the subject of the recall. A […]
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