CHICAGO - The U.S. government plans to issue new guidelines for food companies as early as this week after an increase in recalls of meat and poultry products possibly containing metal, plastic and other foreign materials, a food-safety official said on Monday.The U.S.
Consumer advocates say increased automation in meat processing plants has contributed to more machine parts breaking off and contaminating food. The meat industry says producers are reluctant to recall food until they investigate whether consumer complaints about foreign objects are legitimate. The new guidelines will advise foodmakers on how to investigate and process complaints and apply information from them to subsequent reports of contaminated products, she said.A trio of recalls of Tyson Foods, Perdue Foods and Pilgrim’s Pride Corp chicken products that may have contained rubber or wood put a spotlight on food-safety risks in January and February.
On Saturday, privately held Agri Beef recalled about 30,260 pounds of ground beef products produced in its Washington Beef facility in Washington state. Two days earlier, a consumer complained about finding blue plastic in a product, according to the company, which said it was auditing its procedures to prevent future contamination.
“If they happen we move quickly to notify those affected and take corrective action,” Tyson spokesman Worth Sparkman said. Rottenberg said food companies must alert the USDA quickly if they receive customer complaints, which sometimes come with photos of meat and poultry products containing foreign materials.
Just say NO
Concerns also re Aust beef and coal seam gas contamination. Vested beef industry interests mean there is inadequate testing & inadequate disclosure of pollutants known to cause health risks as a result of contamination caused by coal seam gas fracking.
Fallout from the government shutdown
Don’t eat processed meat. Simple solution.
Trump doesn't want to find a chunk of plastic in his Chicken McNuggets.
Gee. Regulations are important eh?
Incidentally, we want to remember that this picture shows two pieces of a living being killed by the man?
And Republicans say regulations are needless
Who's meat? Human's or animals 😉
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