Can anyone really guarantee that your products will never be implicated in a recall? For most raw beef processors, the response has consistently been that, in the absence of a validated intervention such as high-pressure processing or irradiation, such a statement was impossible.
Interestingly, however, processors may have more control than they think. Increasingly, the existence of positive regulatory findings on the one hand and outbreaks on the other are being linked objectively to identifiable events occurring in slaughter plants themselves.