A Southern California meatpacking firm has significantly expanded its recall of ground beef and veal that might be contaminated with E. coli.
W. coli fears spark 4.9 million pound meat recall - (Feb 14, 2010)
Compared to the US, foreign countries seem to have more of a handle on food safety.
With as much as 30,000 tons of American poultry in the pipeline to Russia, the government in Moscow imposed a ban on future U.S. poultry imports on New Year's Day.
Russia joins the European Union in prohibiting the use of chlorine as an anti-microbial treatment in poultry production, which is commonly used in the United States.
Russia bans US poutry over chlorine - (Jan 7, 2010)
Europe makes US hormone - taint beef ban permanent
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