Not-so-total recall: Cargill’s got nearly a million pounds of tainted beef circulating.
Remember a couple of weeks ago, when
news emerged that a Colorado grocery chain had churned out 466,000 pounds of beef tainted with antibiotic-resistant salmonella, sent it out to six states, and then voluntarily recalled it - but not until weeks after several people had fallen violently ill from it? Well, they must be having some kind of competition out west, because now a California outfit called Beef Packers, owned by
Cargill, the globe's biggest agribusiness concern, has issued an even
bigger recall of beef tainted with antibiotic-resistant salmonella -
this one involving 825,769 pounds circulating in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Utah.