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Senator Demands Answers in Topps Meat Company Recall

October 17th, 2007 laurie

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is still taking heat for its slow response to the Topps Meat Company E. coli outbreak last month. In late September, the USDA issued a recall notice for 21.7 million pounds of frozen hamburger patties made by Topps Meats Co., of Elizabeth, N.J. At least 38 people in eight states have fallen ill with E. coli poisoning after eating Topps frozen hamburgers. But the recall was not ordered until September 25, even though a case in Florida was linked to contaminated Topps meat earlier in the month.

Now, Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill) wants to know why the USDA waited 18 days to issue the Topps Meat company recall. In a letter, the Senator has asked the USDA to “please provide a detailed timeline of the Topps recall, including but not limited to consumer complaints, inspector actions, product testing, and effectiveness checks.” Durbin’s letter also request, “all reports, follow-up inspections and correspondence with Topps officials from 2000 to the present.”

Of course, the Topps Meat Company E. coli outbreak is not the only time that the USDA has allowed tainted food to stay on the market. Just last week, Banquet and store brand pot pies made by ConAgra Foods were linked to a Salmonella outbreak that has so far sickened more than 170 people. ConAgra refused to issue a recall for several days, and there was nothing that the USDA could do about it.

Senator Durbin poses some good questions, and it would be nice if he could get some answers. The USDA is supposed to protect consumers from contaminated foods, but all too often the agency seems more intent on protecting manufacturers. And at times, it even seems as though food companies are the ones telling the USDA what to do.

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