Poultry Processor Workshop covers food safety, other key topics
“The ground turkey recall was a game-changing situation for the industry,” said Mike Robach, VP of Corporate Food Safety and Regulatory Affairs for Cargill Inc. He presented at the 2012 Poultry Processor Workshop held at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, GA. The conference was sponsored by USPOULTRY.
In his presentation entitled, “Salmonella / Campylobacter Interventions in 2nd Processing…A Case Study,” Robach provided an overview of the ground turkey recalls Cargill conducted in August and September 2011, which were associated with an outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg. He discussed the first recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey taken by Cargill in August, stressing that the first recall was voluntary on Cargill’s part and that USDA did not approach Cargill to recall the product.