Via the Macleans.ca Blog Central, Amanda Shendruk has a useful infographic: SHOW AND TELL: Our visual blog on the largest beef recall in Canadian history. This compares the current recall to others. The introduction:
Canada is in the middle of a contamination crisis.
I’m sure you’ve heard by now that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s recall of more than 1,500 beef products from XL Foods is, in fact, the largest beef recall in our country’s history. That’s far from insignificant. But what does “large” mean, really, and how does our current predicament compare to some of the biggest meat recalls in recent history?Spoiler alert: Compared to the 2008 recall of 143 million pounds in southern California, our 1.5 million-pound recall barely registers.
