On September 11th 2011, Cargill recalled an additional 185,000 pounds of ground turkey citing a potential contamination risk of Salmonella Heidelberg.  This recall follows the previous massive recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey products on August 3rd.  In our blog post discussing the first turkey recall we predicted that Cargill would meticulously invest in research and backtracking to understand how the contamination occurred.  As predicted, Cargill has assembled an outside panel of experts to do this very thing.  After discussing their already implemented food safety procedures Cargill states that, “we believe a panel of independent experts will … READ MORE

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36 million pounds of ground turkey. 

That’s a ton of meat, 18,000 tons of meat to be precise. That’s the weight of 120 million brand-new iphones (without the box).  So if almost everyone in Japan bought an iphone-4 today and then put them all on a scale, that’s how much the recalled turkey meat would weigh.

Confused yet? Good.

An importer or manufacturer goes through this same kind of mental trauma every second of every day during a recall or … READ MORE

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