Mods sorry this story is 20 hours old, I heard it last night on NPR but forgot to post it this morning.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-mad-cow-recall,1,2788629.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlinesWASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department said Tuesday its meat recall from the nation's first case of mad cow disease was nearly four times larger than previously disclosed, but dismissed the size as irrelevant.
Vern's then shipped the entire amount, 10,400 pounds, to a deboning processor in Centralia, Wash. From there, the meat was sent to two processors in Oregon, where it was mixed with other meat to create 38,000 pounds of hamburger.
The ground beef was then shipped to wholesalers and retailers in six western states. From slaughter to supermarkets and restaurants, about 580 businesses handled the meat, Agriculture Department officials said.
"The total poundage is irrelevant," said Steve Cohen, a spokesman for the department's Food Safety and Inspection Service. "The relevance is how quickly the product was tracked, how diligent was the tracking and recovering what was recoverable."
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group, said the department's decision not to publicize expanding the recall raises questions about its reliability.
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Mad-cow beef 4 times amount earlier said
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001869153_madcow02m0.html