NOTE: A post concerning this threat appeared last Saturday: http://columbianewsandviews.com/2011/07/30/todays-news-saturday-july-30/#more-6915

PRESS RELEASE

Aug 4, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – Federal officials reported today that ground turkey products belonging to two patients in the current multistate Salmonella outbreak were traced to a Cargill Inc. facility on Jul 20, 2 weeks before investigators presented all their evidence to the company, prompting yesterday’s Cargill recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey.

But in a press conference, officials from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defended their response to the outbreak, saying the picture wasn’t clear enough to tie the outbreak to the Cargill facility in Arkansas until very recently.

They said the picture was muddied by the Read the rest of this entry »