Update on the New Jersy Beef Recall
30 09 2007The New Jersey Beef Recall has been expanded due to additional samples tested by the New York Health Department that found more E coli contamination in meat produced and packaged at Topps meat packing plant in New Jersey. An additional 21.7 million pounds of beef are being recalled.
Source: USDA Recall Site
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“The party descended to the next floor, where the various wast materials were treated. Here came the entrails, to be scraped and washed clean for sausage casings; men and women worked here in the midst of a sickening stench…to another room came all the scraps to be “tanked,” which meant boiling an pumping off the grease to make soap and lard; below they took out the refuse…”
~ Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”
If you haven’t read it, and are wondering why there are so many meat recalls, read “The Jungle.” The methodology developed at the very beginning of the industrial revolution hasn’t changed all that much. So were not much more sanitary today than we were then.