JACK IN THE BOX NOW CAUGHT UP IN MASSIVE RANCHO DEAD STOCK DOWNER CANCER
COW RECALL
Letter: Rancho Feeding meat went to Jack in the Box
Wed, Mar 19, 2014
Much of the beef from Rancho Feeding Corp., the Petaluma slaughterhouse
that had to recall all the meat it produced last year, ended up in hamburgers
sold by fast food giant Jack in the Box, according to a letter from the plant's
manager to the federal government.
The beef also ended up in the products of other fast food chains. Those
companies, as well as Jack in the Box, have recalled the hamburger patties, a
top industry consultant said on Tuesday.
Also, the company that supplied the food chains has recalled the product,
though it is all but certain it has been consumed, said the consultant, Dave
Theno.
“At this stage, I believe they are all completed,” Theno, a former
executive with Jack in the Box, said of the fast food chains' recall
actions.
In the Oct. 28, 2013, letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food
Safety Inspection Service, Rancho Feeding manager Scott Parks criticized as
unfounded a USDA inspector's report that a cow was slaughtered inhumanely.
The Press Democrat obtained the letter from a source who asked to remain
anonymous because the case is being investigated by the USDA and the U.S.
Attorney General. In it, Parks said Rancho would lose customers if it was
thought to be treating animals incorrectly.
His main concern was with Jack in the Box.
“The majority of our carcasses end up at Jack in the Box,” Parks wrote to
the USDA's Alameda office, “and if they stop taking our product we will be out
of business.”
(page 2 of 4)
Former Rancho co-owner Robert Singleton said Tuesday that he doubted Parks
had actually written such a statement regarding the fast-food company, saying,
“He wouldn't know.”
Jack in the Box officials did not respond to calls and emails seeking
comment.
Rancho was forced in February to recall 8.7 million pounds of beef and veal
produced in 2013 and sold throughout the United States and Canada. The USDA said
it had been produced without being fully inspected.
No illnesses have been reported, but thousands of retailers who bought
Rancho meat, from Safeway to Wal-Mart, have had to recall products ranging from
Hot Pocket sandwiches to beef jerky from Sonoma-based Krave Pure Foods.
Also, a number of North Bay custom ranchers have had their beef locked down
— unable to sell or retrieve it — even though, they say, the health of their
cattle has not been questioned and they were processed separately from the
plant's dairy cows.
The USDA and the U.S. Attorney General's Office — as well as Rancho's
owners — have been tight-lipped about what suspected wrongdoings are being
investigated. Sources with knowledge of the investigation have said one issue is
that the slaughterhouse was processing cows with cancer. That is illegal.
Rancho ceased operations in February and is in the process of being sold to
a Marin rancher.
Parks, in the seven-page letter that is a catalogue of complaints about the
USDA inspector, did not say how much of the slaughterhouse's beef was sold to
Jack in the Box, which has 2,250 restaurants and franchises in 21 states,
according to its website.
(page 3 of 4)
Theno said the meat represented “a substantial amount of product” for Jack
in the Box.
About 40 percent of a typical fast-food hamburger patty consists of fat and
fat trimmings. The remainder is the type of lean beef that Rancho produced from
dairy cows it purchased, said Theno, who was senior vice president and chief
food safety officer for Jack in the Box. The company hired him after a 1993
scandal in which its burgers were blamed for a massive food illness outbreak in
which four children died.
Depending on the blend of lean to fat beef, and on the size of the
hamburger patties, one million pounds of beef could produce 4 million
quarter-pound patties to 9 million smaller patties, said Theno, a Meat Industry
Hall of Fame member.
Rancho did not sell directly to Jack in the Box, but to a meat grinding
operation that then sold patties to the fast food firm, said Theno. He said that
the grinder, which he would not identify because of his links to the industry,
also supplied other fast food chains. All had been affected by the recall, he
said.
“I know for a fact that these guys (the grinder) produce for both Jack as
well as other providers, major fast food people, and you've got to go out to
everyone” in a recall, Theno said.
The breakdown in the food safety chain in the Rancho case already has
caused a reassessment at the major fast-food chains, Theno said.
“This is a situation, everyone in the stream takes a look at, 'OK, we
aren't having any fun here, what do we need to be doing to make sure this isn't
happening on our watch again,'” he said.
(page 4 of 4)
There likely has been a burst of legal activity in the wake of the recall,
said Bill Marler, a Seattle food safety attorney who publishes Food Safety News,
an online news service.
From end users like Jack in the Box, through the grinders that supply them,
through any middlemen, to the original slaughterhouse, each party relies on the
actions of the one preceding it in the chain of distribution, Marler said.
“Jack in the Box would be the downstream entity making claims upstream,” he
said. “I would be shocked at this stage, given the amount of product being
recalled and the number of stores and now restaurants being implicated, if there
weren't claims being made.”
You can reach Staff Writer Jeremy Hay at 521-5212 or
jeremy.hay@pressdemocrat.com.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
TEXAS RECALL LIST MASSIVE FROM DEAD STOCK DOWNER CANCER COWS OFFAL from
Class I Recall 002-2014 and 013-2014 Health Risk: High Jan 13, 2014 and Feb 8,
2014 shipped to Texas, Florida, and Illinois UPDATE FEBRUARY 14, 2014
*** Because typical clinical signs of BSE cannot always be observed in
nonambulatory disabled cattle, and because evidence has indicated these cattle
are more likely to have BSE than apparently healthy cattle, FDA is designating
material from nonambulatory disabled cattle as prohibited cattle materials.
Monday, March 3, 2014
*** Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter of Idaho signs bill that will force consumers
to eat dead stock downers and whatever else the industry decides
Thursday, February 13, 2014
HSUS VS USDA ET AL BAN DOWNER CALVES FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION (*veal) and
potential BSE risk factor there from
Thursday, February 20, 2014
*** Unnecessary precautions BSE MAD COW DISEASE Dr. William James FSIS VS
Dr. Linda Detwiler 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
Investigators study silent variant of mad cow disease Galveston Daily News
March 4, 2014
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Science and Technology Committee Oral evidence: Blood, tissue and organ
screening, HC 990 Wednesday 5 March 2014 SPORADIC CJD
Actually, it is nearer 2 per million per year of the population will
develop sporadic CJD, but your lifetime risk of developing sporadic CJD is about
1 in 30,000. So that has not really changed. When people talk about 1 per
million, often they interpret that as thinking it is incredibly rare. They think
they have a 1-in-a-million chance of developing this disease. You haven’t.
You’ve got about a 1-in-30,000 chance of developing it.
*** Because typical clinical signs of BSE cannot always be observed in
nonambulatory disabled cattle, and because evidence has indicated these cattle
are more likely to have BSE than apparently healthy cattle, FDA is designating
material from nonambulatory disabled cattle as prohibited cattle materials.
*** And Terry, I promised the editor you would respond so thanks for
backing my prediction up. I have read your tripe before so did not reread the
whole thing. but your point about the age of the cattle takes on the scientific
regulatory bodies of every country but one that exports US beef. They all, but
one, agree that meat from cattle under 30 months of age carries zero risk of BSE
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Terry S. Singeltary Sr. > doc raymond • a month ago
Dr. Richard Raymond Sir, I only reply when you are scientifically wrong. I
commented today, because again, you were scientifically wrong, and I proved it
again, with scientific facts to back it up. sorry if that upsets you. you can
fool some of the folks some of the time, but not all of us all the time. you
either blatantly lied in your editorial, or you are grossly uninformed, time and
time again. I think the public can take their pick on that, and in both cases,
and they would be correct in both cases, in my opinion. you have a nice day sir.
...kind regards, terry
kind regards, terry
What is a Downer Calf?
By Dr. Richard Raymond | February 21, 2014
see full text Dr. Richard Raymond vs Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Investigators study silent variant of mad cow disease Galveston Daily News
March 4, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Unnecessary precautions BSE MAD COW DISEASE Dr. William James FSIS VS Dr.
Linda Detwiler 2014
Owens, Julie
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. [flounder9@verizon.net]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 1:09 PM
To: FSIS RegulationsComments
Subject: [Docket No. FSIS-2006-0011] FSIS Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Page 1 of 98
FSIS, USDA, REPLY TO SINGELTARY
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/BSE_Risk_Assess_Response_Public_Comments.pdf
Sunday, August 09, 2009
CJD...Straight talk with...James Ironside...and...Terry Singeltary...
2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
* BSE-The Untold Story - joe gibbs and singeltary 1999 - 2009
WHAT about the sporadic CJD TSE proteins ?
WE now know that some cases of sporadic CJD are linked to atypical BSE and
atypical Scrapie, so why are not MORE concerned about the sporadic CJD, and all
it’s sub-types $$$
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD cases rising North America updated report
August 2013
*** Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD cases rising North America with Canada
seeing an extreme increase of 48% between 2008 and 2010 ***
Sunday, October 13, 2013
*** CJD TSE Prion Disease Cases in Texas by Year, 2003-2012
Sunday, March 09, 2014
A Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Lookback Study: Assessing the Risk of
Blood Borne Transmission of Classic Forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
FDA TSEAC CIRCUS AND TRAVELING ROAD SHOW FOR THE TSE PRION DISEASES
TSS
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