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Food Safety: USDA and FDA Need to Better Ensure Prompt and Complete Recalls of Potentially Unsafe Food.

Publication: General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04 		Format: Online - approximately 557 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
GAO-05-51 October 7, 2004

Two large food recalls completed in 2003 were associated with 8 deaths and nearly 100 serious illnesses in at least 16 states. Manufacturers voluntarily recall potentially unsafe food by notifying their customers to return or destroy it. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), for meat, poultry, and egg products, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for other food, have programs to monitor voluntary food recalls, verify that companies contact their customers, and maintain recall data. GAO (1)...

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