U.S.: Mad Cow Meat Recall 4 Times Larger (than previously announced)

[underpants]

Mods sorry this story is 20 hours old, I heard it last night on NPR but forgot to post it this morning.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-mad-cow-recall,1,2788629.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department said Tuesday its meat recall from the nation's first case of mad cow disease was nearly four times larger than previously disclosed, but dismissed the size as irrelevant.

Vern's then shipped the entire amount, 10,400 pounds, to a deboning processor in Centralia, Wash. From there, the meat was sent to two processors in Oregon, where it was mixed with other meat to create 38,000 pounds of hamburger.

The ground beef was then shipped to wholesalers and retailers in six western states. From slaughter to supermarkets and restaurants, about 580 businesses handled the meat, Agriculture Department officials said.

"The total poundage is irrelevant," said Steve Cohen, a spokesman for the department's Food Safety and Inspection Service. "The relevance is how quickly the product was tracked, how diligent was the tracking and recovering what was recoverable."

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group, said the department's decision not to publicize expanding the recall raises questions about its reliability.

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Mad-cow beef 4 times amount earlier said
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001869153_madcow02m0.html

[NashVegas]

1. Does Anyone Know

About what proportion fat-to-meat one should use when grinding one's own hamburger?

[underpants]

2. How about 100 to 0

I had forgoten about hearing this yesterday until I was thinking about going to the grocery store and what I might try to cook my wife tonight......well beef is out.

"The oundage is irrelevant" that is classic.

[NashVegas]

3. Eh?

whaddya think I'm a seal or something?

[underpants]

4. LOL

COme on jump a little higher goood boy that's such a gooooood boy...

[redqueen]

7. Whole Foods sells grain-fed beef

That's supposedly still safe to eat.

[Mountainman]

6. Don't eat hamburger

Eventually it will cause disease of some sort. Cancer, diabetes, heart trouble, you name it.

[mbperrin]

5. Hmmmm....if irrelevant, why bring it up now?

I swear these nitwits CANNOT tell the truth about anything.

[underpants]

8. They probably thought the story would slide by

It wouldn't surprise me if this was released on a Friday afternoon.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Hence why Beef is NOT on my menu

btw has everyone noticed the waht's for dinner adds from the beef council?

I think they are feeling the pain now