Filed under: California, health and environment, Mad Cow, USDA | Tags: ConAgra, General Mills, Hallmark/Westland, Heinz, Nestle
What they didn’t tell you about recent meat recall
The Seattle Times
March 12, 2008
The largest meat recall in U.S. history was bound to reverberate throughout the food-manufacturing world. So far, four major food manufacturers — ConAgra, General Mills, Heinz and Nestlé — have acknowledged that meat involved in the 143 million-pound recall, announced Feb. 17, was used in some of their products.
So why haven’t those products been recalled?
They have been — very quietly.
Nestlé, General Mills, Heinz and ConAgra each acknowledged to news organizations that they have recalled products containing beef from the meatpacking company Hallmark/Westland.
Those products include two versions of Nestlé’s Hot Pocket sandwiches, Heinz’s Boston Market lasagna with meat sauce, General Mills’ Progresso Italian Wedding Soup and a variety of meat products from ConAgra, ranging from Slim Jim snacks to Hunt’s Manwich Original Sloppy Joe Sauce.
The companies stressed that the use of Hallmark/Westland meat was limited, and that they notified retailers and told them to pull those products.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/bus..&ref=business&pagewanted=print
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