Pilgrim's Pride Corp (PPC)

[chickenvestor]

Not sure how much one would have to eat before becoming ill. Probably depends on the condition of the host. Personally I felt the initial recall was very limited for the type of contamination they were addressing. I did not see a statement in any of the articles as to where they thought it may have come from but there may be a number of reasons why it was so small. QA is always testing but results take a couple days from the date of the test to grow the culture and verify the contaminant. For that reason it is always better to retain before shipping if you have the storage capacity and the customers can wait until the results are in. In that case, no one but the company has to know and incidents like these are kept out of the mainstream media. It is quite possible the recall was only a small amount of the product that was contaminated and the rest never left the plant.