Food Safety Actions Needed By Usda And Fda To Ensure That Companies Promptly Carry Out Recalls

The USDA coordinates & tracks recalls that involve USDA-regulated meat & poultry products, such as ground beef & chicken. The FDA assists, coordinates, & tracks recalls involving all other foods, such as fruit juices & alfalfa sprouts. This report provides info. on: the no. of food recalls by USDA & FDA since 1984, & of those, the no. assoc. with outbreaks of foodborne illnesses; for recalls assoc. with such outbreaks, the extent to which USDA & FDA identified the cause of the outbreak & how the product became contaminated; the extent to which co's. delayed or did not comply with USDA or FDA recalls; & the economic impact of recalls on affected co's.Dyckman, Lawrence J. is the author of 'Food Safety Actions Needed By Usda And Fda To Ensure That Companies Promptly Carry Out Recalls', published 2000 under ISBN 9780756709037 and ISBN 0756709032.