Crystalline material, thin blue rubber, glass, hard white plastic, flexible rubber material, and small rocks. All of these items were found in meat or poultry products between May 2020 and May 2021, causing six recalls. All total, 1,195,732 pounds of products were recalled – products that would have been perfectly fine to eat had the contaminants been detected earlier and the adulterated products destroyed.
Processors have undertaken extensive measures to eliminate pathogens such as E. coli and Listeria from their products. As a result of the industry’s work, there were just 31 total meat and poultry recalls in 2020, as noted byThe National Provisioner columnist Shawn Stevens. Just one involved a recall due to E. coli.