Company orders largest recall of ground beef. A California meat company on Sunday issued the largest beef recall in history, 143 million pounds, some of which was used in school lunch programs, Department of Agriculture officials announced. [News Source]

Beef recall is largest in U.S. history. A California company has recalled 143.4 million pounds of beef products that the Department of Agriculture said were unfit for human consumption. [News Source]

US orders massive recall of beef. The US Department of Agriculture has ordered the recall of 143m lb of beef--the largest meat recall in the country's history. [News Source]

Calfornia packer makes largest US beef recall. A California meatpacker accused of animal cruelty is making the largest US meat recall on record -- 143 million lbs, the US Agriculture Department said on Sunday. [News Source]

Beef recalled due to “downer cows”-mad cow fears raised. Meat from the plant under investigation went to the National School Lunch Program, the Emergency Food Assistance Program and the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations. [News Source]

USDA orders largest meat recall in U.S. history. USDA has ordered the largest meat recall in its history--143 million pounds of beef, a Calif. meatpacker's entire production for two years--because the company did not prevent ailing animals from entering the food supply. [News Source]

Brown and Cameron woo farmers’. British farmers are to be wooed by a raft of senior politicians this week, each trying to persuade suppliers of food--and in the future, biofuels--that they are the farmer's friend. [News Source]

Huge beef recall issued. The USDA announced the largest beef recall in its history, calling for the destruction of 143 million pounds of raw and frozen beef produced by a Chino slaughterhouse that allowed sick, "downer" cattle to enter the food chain. [News Source]

US officials insist the risk of mad cow disease is low to those who consumed the recalled kind of beef [EPA] (Aljazeera) The US department of agriculture (USDA) has recalled 65,000 tonnes of beef produced in a Californian abattoir. [News Source]

USDA recalls beef, citing risk of mad cow disease (Anderson Independent-Mail) A nationwide recall of about 144 million pounds of beef could impact dinner plates across the country, including public schools. [News Source]