Rancho Feeding Corp. Recalls More Than 8.7 Million Pounds Of Beef Products
By Sean Overpeck (CFE)
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PETALUMA, California (AP) — A Northern California company is recalling more than 8.7 million pounds of beef products because it processed diseased and unhealthy animals without a full federal inspection, federal officials said Saturday.
That's a whole year's worth of meat processed by Rancho Feeding Corp., which has been under scrutiny by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service. The agency said that without a full inspection, the recalled products are unfit for human consumption.
They were processed from Jan. 1, 2013, through Jan. 7 and shipped to distribution centers and retail stores in California, Florida, Illinois, and Texas. They include beef carcasses, oxtail, liver, cheeks, tripe, tongue and veal bones. Last month the company recalled more than 40,000 pounds of meat products produced on Jan. 8 that also didn't undergo a full inspection.
The problems were discovered as part of an ongoing investigation, the FSIS said.
A call to the company went unanswered. There have been no reports of illnesses. An FSIS spokesman said because some of the products could still be frozen and in storage, a Class I recall was issued because the meat product could cause serious, adverse health consequences.
UPDATES:
Jesse “Babe” Amaral Jr., former co-owner of the Petaluma, CA, slaughterhouse previously known as Rancho Feeding Corporation, has joined three other defendants in pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute adulterated, misbranded, and uninspected meat.
All four defendants will proceed to status hearings and sentencing later this year as there is now no need for any trials over charges involving diseased cattle reaching the human food market and causing a year’s worth of beef production to be recalled. All were charged with distribution of adulterated, misbranded, and un-inspected meat in violation of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA), 21 U.S.C. §§ 610(c) & 676(a); conspiracy to commit the same, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, and mail fraud conspiracy in furtherance of the same scheme, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349.
The Slaughterhouse is now permanently closed.
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