Personal Injury Law

The Department of Agriculture is on Fire

By Bill Marler, Esq.

In what might be the most bizarre headline I have seen in 15 years of following food cases:

Cattle heads recalled by USDA

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is warning consumers that 406,000 pounds of frozen cattle heads are being recalled by a Kansas meat packer.??  The cattle heads are being recalled because tonsils were not removed properly, according to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.??  The recall is being made to prevent human exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE.??  BSE is popularly known as mad cow disease.??  The heads packed before March 28 and sent to wholesalers and retailers were produced by Elkhorn Valley Packing of Harper, Kansas.  The Food Safety and Inspection Service rated the health risk as low, with no reports of illness.

Ok, someone know what people do with frozen cattle heads?

Full post as published by Marler Blog on April 05, 2008 (boomark / email).