Personal Injury Law

143.3 Million Pounds Of Beef Recalled From Chino

After the nation's school districts have been stuck holding their illegal meat in public freezers for more than two weeks, the Chino slaughterhouse has finally done the obvious and issued a recall.

The Food Safety & Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture announced  on Sunday afternoon that 143,383,823 pounds of raw and frozen beef products from Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company of Chino, CA were being "voluntarily recalled."

FSIS said the meat did not receive the "complete and proper inspection"  in situations when non-ambulatory cattle were involved.  In other words, the Hallmark/Westland slaughterhouse in Chino was processing "downer" cows and selling the meat from them to America's school lunch program.

Only a "pen manager" and his assistant have been charged in the slaughterhouse scandal.  Their images being cruel to the "downer" cows were captured on video taken by an undercover operative from the Humane Society of America.

The FSIS statement on the recall can be found here.

Full post as published by Mad Cow Blog on February 17, 2008 (boomark / email).