Absolutely disgraceful but more of the same from this administration who favors business over consumers.
An e-mail from a federal inspector confirms the U.S. Department of Agriculture knew that millions of frozen hamburger patties could be contaminated with E. coli in early September but waited 18 days before concluding Topps Meat Co. should issue a recall, a lawyer for a teen sickened by the beef said Thursday.If this is what the US Agriculture department thinks is the "safest in the world" (said only on Monday), someone needs to get their butt out of the office and out of the country because that is simply false.
The recall came Sept. 25, and was soon expanded to comprise 21.7 million pounds of hamburger produced by Elizabeth-based Topps, the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history.
The Florida teen was hospitalized with kidney failure in August and the meat her family bought was tested by the USDA.
"I think the American meat supply is the safest in the world," Raymond said in an interview on CBS's "The Early Show." "A recall like this does show that we are on the job, we are doing our inspections, our investigation, and we respond when we find problems to make sure that supply is safe."Interesting in light of the emails that have surfaced. Where I come from, we call people like this a liar. With the risk of serious illness or death from eating contaminated beef, how can people like this sleep at night?
