15 million pounds of Spaghetti-Os recalled

[charlie]

If ever there was a "food" that should be on permanent recall, that day-glo goop should be it:

Campbell Soup Co. is recalling nearly 15 million pounds of canned SpaghettiOs with meatballs because of possible under-processing, the U.S. agriculture department said.

The recall includes 14.75-ounce cans with a use-by date between June 2010 and December 2011 of three varieties of the product: "SpaghettiOs with Meatballs," "SpaghettiOs A to Z with Meatballs" and "SpaghettiOs Fun Shapes with Meatballs (Cars)."

Consumers who have purchased those products with a plant code of "EST4K" should not eat them and should return them to the store where they were purchased for an exchange or full refund, Campbell Soup said...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/17/spaghettios.recall/index.html

[Lochloosa]

1. NOOOOOOOOOOO!

[scheming daemons]

2. What does "underprocessing" mean?

.

[Chiyo-chichi]

"under cooked" meat.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5500292/campbell_soup_recalls_spaghettio_products.html?cat=5

Now, Campbell Soup is recalling 15 million pounds of SpaghettiO Shapes. This is about 35,000 cans that are involved in the recall. Campbells states that the meat in this product is under cooked. Thus consuming the SpaghettiO shapes could be very hazardous to the health.

This problem arose because at a Campbell's manufacturing plant in Paris, Texas, a cooker malfunctioned and did not properly cook the meat, notes the Huffington Post.

[Nikia]

10. That article made it even clearer

If the cooker was malfunctioning, they should have known about it because they should have been monitoring the temperature constanly. That thermometer should have been checked at least daily against another thermometer, which should have been checked against a certified lab thermometer. This is a critical control point in food operations in which temperature is vital. This is not optional.
I find it especially disturbing that this problem existed for a year and a half. This wasn't just a mistake or miscommunication. For this to have happened would require the negligence of several people, probably even state and federal inspectors.

[pipi_k]

18. I was thinking more along the lines of...

undercooked "meat"



snicker
:7

[Nikia]

8. It can mean that it wasn't cooked to temperature

Which is a critical control point, which means it is supposed to be constantly monitored and production immediately shut down if the product isn't meeting standard.
I suppose that it could mean other things, but they aren't going to recall that much product from that long ago if it were a minor quality issue rather than food safety issue.

[doc03]

15. They forgot the rat hairs, n/t

[HereSince1628]

3. Uh-OH! Spaghetti O's! n/t

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Teee heee. Campbell's bites it. Smirk." - Chef Boyardee (R)

"My meatballs are, um, spicier." - Chef Boyardee (R)

[Nikia]

5. It took them a year and a half to discover that there was a problem?

With an issue that was probably a critical control point.
As a quality professional in the food industry, I find this unexcusable, especially from a large organization. In an orgnaization like this, such an oversight was not merely the negligence of a couple of irresponsible individuals or a meglamaniac small business owner that bullied his employees into negligence like Peanut America. On the plus side, some companies would just try to hide it.
Sometimes I think that it is a miracle that thousands of people aren't dying from food borne illnesses everyday.

[KittyWampus]

20. as a small business owner, I find it maddening. We get a visit every year

and the guy goes over this place with a fine tooth comb.

[Orrex]

6. Even "good" Spaghetti-Os kind of taste like vomit anyway.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Good news for any

Pastafarians out there.

[SpiralHawk]

11. "Right on, dipsy. One Love and all that." - The PFsters

[dipsydoodle]

12. Truly excellent version here :

Playing For Change http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjPODksI08

:hi:

[SpiralHawk]

17. What with Butter Jesus taking a lightning hit, and Spaghetti O's getting funky

ya gotta wonder, could it be Satan?

[GodlessBiker]

9. That's more Spaghetti-os than should exist in the entire universe.

[Wickerman]

13. There is actual meat in Spaghetti-O's?

who knew?

[spanone]

14. i didn't know anybody ate that shit anymore

[doc03]

16. Don't eat them anyway, I am hooked on Chef Boy R Dee

(meat?) ravioli.

[pipi_k]

19. I should be seriously traumatized by that stuff, but...

strangely enough, I'm not.


It was about all the food hubby #1 and I could afford back in the early 1970s, when we were very poor.

[Berry Cool]

21. Underprocessed canned food means more than "uncooked meat." Botulism is the main danger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism

Serious, very deadly stuff. This is one form of "botox" you don't want anywhere near your face.

If you do have any SpaghettiOs around that you so much as even doubt, dump 'em.