More corn products recalled

Food & Drink Weekly, Oct 23, 2000

In the wake of recent taco shell recalls by Safeway Inc. and Kraft Foods, two U.S. subsidiaries of Mexico's largest corn miller, Gruma SA, announced recalls of all their yellow corn products during a probe of allegations that StarLink corn entered their production chain. Azteca Milling is voluntarily recalling yellow corn flour from the marketplace because it possibly could contain StarLink, a protein not approved for human consumption. The company also announced that it would only mill white corn. Mission Foods Corp., the nation's leading manufacturer of tortillas, is recalling all of its taco shells, tortilla chips, tortillas and other products milled from yellow corn. Other developments include:

* ConAgra Foods Inc. has temporarily ceased operations at a Kansas mill out of concern it may have received the same StarLink corn;

* Cargill Inc. and Archer Daniels Midland say their mills are using new testing kits to scan corn being bought from farmers; and

* J. Sainsbury Plc's Shaw's Supermarkets Inc., Food Lion and Kash n' Karry all voluntarily removed taco products Taco Shells from all its Shaw's and Star Market stores.