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Originally posted by Hot Dog King

21 million pounds is alot of cattle!

This will most likely turn into something like the Fast Food HOT DRINK labeling or Cancer warning on cigarettes. Was there appropriate warnings on the box stating that the meat must be cooked properly?

I was thinking along the same lines. 21 million pounds is about 86,400,000 burgers. There have been 29 confirmed cases of e-coli sickness. That works out to a confirmed contamination rate of 0.0000335% or that you had a one in 3 million chance of becoming sick. It just seems like an incredible amount of food to destroy based on such small percentages of illness. I cannot imagine it is possible that ANY food product has a safety ratio much better than 3 million to one!

(forgive me if my math is off…the point I was trying to make is that the odds of illness from this product were low…in my mind low enough to make such a massive recall questionable)