Contaminated beef is being sold. They dont know. Were learning some of it may have been sold in supermarkets, not just restaurants. For more on this, tony corbo from food and water watch. Thanks for coming on the show. How could they not know where the stuff is . They know the producer. Well they will have to check the retail records to see where, where this particular company sold their products. So if the, if records are deficient at the company, it is going to take longer to do the investigative work. Gerri oh, boy. That sound like a long process to me. So how do i know if the hamburger in my freezer right now is contaminated . Well, if in fact it did hit retail supermarkets, there is an inspection legend, usda inspection legend on packages that will identify the plant. And the plant number is 2574b. So if you see the logo of usda saying it has been inspected, there should be an establishment number with that number there. So that would indicate that meat came from that plant. Gerri
recommendations, and the president has appointed a food safety working group to push on issues just like this one, wolf. the criticism over the years and you know this criticism yeah. the industry knows this criticism that it simply had too cozy a relationship with federal regulators and that s a problem. that s right. tony corbo with the group food and water watch said it s historically been a problem especially with this industry. people from the meat and cattle industry taking positions within the administration, and then going right back and working with the industry. it s happened for years. the obama team has been pretty careful about not letting lobbyists and other industry reps to take positions in these regulatory agencies, but it certainly does bear watching, given the history in this case. so, you did some reporting. should people avoid eating beef? is it as simple as that? it s really tony corbo said he wouldn t avoid eating beef. what you ve got to do