Post by Sherry on Feb 18, 2008 11:38:12 GMT -5
Chino, Calif.-based Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. has voluntarily recalled about 143,383,823 pounds of raw and frozen beef products that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has determined unfit for human food because some of the cattle did not receive complete and proper inspection, USDA announced on Sunday.
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Product that has not been consumed and has gone to domestic nutrition assistance programs has been on hold since Jan. 30. Westland was actually named Supplier of the Year for 2004-2005 to the National School Lunch Program, to which Westland was a major supplier for years.
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“We do not feel this product presents a health risk of any significance,” Under Secretary for Food Safety Richard Raymond told reporters, noting the chances of even downer cattle testing positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy are extremely low, and that specified risk materials are removed under FSIS inspector surveillance.
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This is a recall that has to do with choices made after the farm in the processing plants. They were slaughtering downer cows. Cows that couldn’t walk and may have had BSE - that is to say Mad Cow Disease. This has nothing to do with farms, nothing to do with small farms, yet the USDA has been using this excuse of Mad Cows to justify their proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS).
Joe and Jane Q. Public don’t know the difference. The government purposesfully confuses them to justify the spending of hundreds of millions of dollars on NAIS. It’s a slight of hand as they take away our freedoms and choices.
This information was excerpted taken from the NONAIS.org website.
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Product that has not been consumed and has gone to domestic nutrition assistance programs has been on hold since Jan. 30. Westland was actually named Supplier of the Year for 2004-2005 to the National School Lunch Program, to which Westland was a major supplier for years.
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“We do not feel this product presents a health risk of any significance,” Under Secretary for Food Safety Richard Raymond told reporters, noting the chances of even downer cattle testing positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy are extremely low, and that specified risk materials are removed under FSIS inspector surveillance.
-Meeting Place -USDA PR
This is a recall that has to do with choices made after the farm in the processing plants. They were slaughtering downer cows. Cows that couldn’t walk and may have had BSE - that is to say Mad Cow Disease. This has nothing to do with farms, nothing to do with small farms, yet the USDA has been using this excuse of Mad Cows to justify their proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS).
Joe and Jane Q. Public don’t know the difference. The government purposesfully confuses them to justify the spending of hundreds of millions of dollars on NAIS. It’s a slight of hand as they take away our freedoms and choices.
This information was excerpted taken from the NONAIS.org website.