Once again, the meat industry deserves to be congratulated for another great year! With fewer than 50 recalls at the time of this writing, 2021 will go down in history as one of the safest years for the meat industry in the last two decades.
That is quite an accomplishment considering there were 125 and 124 recalls of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-regulated products in 2018 and 2019, respectively. While in 2021 we witnessed the lowest number of recalls in the last 20 years with only 33, the last time the meat industry had a year with less than 50 recalls was 2007. Being able to maintain back-to-back years with record-low recall numbers in an amazing accomplishment.