Tracking food to its source
Massive beef recall tests food companies' ability to track supplies. Heinz learns by its own sleuthing that its Boston Market lasagna with meat sauce contained recalled beef; General Mills put a team on the question to learn of five days in which Hallmark/Westland beef was added to canned soup. After 9/11 attacks, new laws to block bioterrorism required companies to trace their production forward and back.
The Wall Street Journal (may require subscription) 2008-03-04
Categories: BUSINESS, Big Players, Food Safety, HEALTH & NUTRITION
Index: Banquet macaroni & cheese meal, bovine, BSE, ConAgra Foods Inc., Craig Henry, Democrat, downer cows, e.coli, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Hallmark/Westland, Hot Pockets, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Humane Society, Hunt's spaghetti sauce with meat flavor, John Dingell, lasagna with beef, mad cow, Manwich with beef refrigerated, Michigan, Nebraska, Nestle Prepared Foods Co., Nestle SA, Omaha, Pemmican beef jerky, Pittsburgh, Roz O'Hearn, salmonella, Slim Jim meat and cheese sticks, Steve Mendell, subpoena, suspect beef, Teresa Paulsen, video