CHICAGO: USDA warns changes could delay recalls - (Reuters)
March 18, 2008 – 5:46 pmhttp://www.reuters.com/article/Food08/idUSN1719362020080317?sp=true
Richard Raymond, agriculture undersecretary who oversees USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, was cited as saying during the Reuters Food Summit Monday that it took four hours under the U.S. Agriculture Department’s voluntary recall system to begin the largest meat recall in history, while recalls under some proposed mandatory systems would have taken days to execute, adding, “I do know that within four hours they (the beef plant) had issued the recall from the time we asked them to do the voluntary recall.”
The story recalls that in February, Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. recalled 143 million lbs of beef after USDA officials watched videos, taken by the Humane Society of the United States, showing fallen cattle being forced into the plant for processing, a violation of USDA regulations.
As a result, USDA asked for, and the company complied with, the recall of the beef that was produced over a two-year period.
Raymond was […]
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