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Just a heads up:

Recall of Nearly 9 Million Pounds of Meat Not Fully Inspected

(CNN) -- Some 8.7 million pounds of meat from a Northern California company have been recalled because they came from "diseased and unsound" animals that weren't properly inspected, a federal agency announced Saturday.

The recall affecting Rancho Feeding Corporation products -- as detailed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service -- marks a significant expansion of one announced January 13, when just over 40,000 pounds of the company's products were recalled.

According to the U.S. agency, Rancho Feeding "processed diseased and unsound animals and carried out these activities without the benefit or full benefit of federal inspection."

"Thus, the products are adulterated, because they are unsound, unwholesome or otherwise are unfit for human food and must be removed from commerce," the FSIS reported. The Petaluma company made the recall.

The government agency noted there are no reported illnesses tied to these products, which went to distribution centers and retail establishments in California, Florida, Illinois and Texas. It was not immediately clear which companies got them, or whether they ended up being sold in some form at any markets or restaurants.

There was no answer Saturday night to a call from CNN to a phone number listed for Rancho Feeding Corporation.

A wide range of products are listed in the recall, including beef carcasses and various parts such as heads, cheeks, lips, livers, feet and tongues in boxes of 20 pounds and bigger. Forty-pound boxes of veal bones and 60-pound boxes of veal trim are included as well.

All of these were produced and shipped between January 1, 2013, through January 7, 2014. They all have "EST. 527" in the USDA mark of inspection and have a case code number ending in 3 or 4.

In the January announcement, the FSIS reported only that the products were being recalled only from January 8, 2014, and that they didn't have a "full federal inspection."

Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/08/us/beef-product-recall/

Hope I have this posted in the right area. Just wanted to give the Californians a heads up. Don't eat the beef!


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[George Newbill]

Wow!

Talk about doublespeak and weasel words.

That official statement was disturbing on so many levels.

So meat from downer animals ended up in the food supply, not good.

The USDA allowed it, why do we even have a USDA?

Now the meat packer is in trouble, well they asked for it.

The USDA thinks that it is the answer to all our problems, really?

 

[Radio]

The USDA allowed it, why do we even have a USDA?

Good question. I'm guessing it is so that the major corporations have a lean-to, a scapegoat for poisoning America for profit.

 

[Lui]

Please provide the full path to your source. Thanks. Lui

 

[Redneck Sasquatch]

Sucks for you people that actually buy meat at the store. I get most of mine from Pronghorn, Deer and Elk :

 

[Observer]

I would save this and serve it at the next DNC rally. Free beef.

 

[Radio]

Please provide the full path to your source. Thanks. Lui

I unwrapped the source in the OP.

Here's another link, though:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/calif-company-recalls-87-million-pounds-meat-22429031

 

[MtnCat]

The product listing from CNN is not complete. From Food Safety News:

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/02/class-1-high-risk-recall-of-8742700-pounds-of-beef-from-rancho-feeding-corporation/#.Uvg6BfuL3D0

And "Class I" is defined as: "This is a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death."

Finally, the products were also distributed to Florida, Illinois and Texas, so it's not just Californian SB members potentially affected.

 

[marbro]

Yet its the small dairy farmers selling raw milk who get swat teams fully armed storming their farms and damaging their property. ..bet nothing of the sort happen with these guys.

 

[NoOzone]

Expect Jay Carney-Rat to lay this on the GOP...you know, it was due to the Sequester and Government Shutdown...