Frozen beef recalls sink one company, spark calls for reforms in inspection: pot pies and pizza also caught up in headline bad news. One major manufacturer changes cooking instructions for pot pies. Suppliers in Canada as well as in United States affected.(FOOD PRODUCT SAFETY)

Quick Frozen Foods International, January, 2008 by Pierce, J.J.

A series of headline-grabbing recalls, including several involving frozen food products, has drawn protests from consumer advocates and brought a century-old system of regulation and inspection in the United States into question.

Although criticism of the US government for lax enforcement began with products imported from China, including frozen catfish, it was heightened by scandals involving high profile domestic producers of basic food products.

First it was frozen hamburger patties, then it was pot pies, and then it was pizza. Recalls involving frozen burgers put one manufacturer out of business and even set off an international trade dispute. There have also been more than a dozen recalls of fresh beef.

One of the fresh ground beef...

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