Cargill Value Added Meats, one of the largest turkey processors in the country and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cargill, Inc., an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services, announced today that it is recalling nearly 36 million pounds of fresh and frozen ground turkey produced at its facility in
When ground meat attacks: context for the ground turkey salmonella outbreak
Last year, in a USDA study, 10% of ground turkey retail samples were positive for Salmonella. Now we are in the midst of a major, multi-state Salmonella outbreak, made worse by the fact that the turkey meat involved is contaminated by a strain of Salmonella that is resistant to many antibiotics commonly prescribed to