date:May 25, 2012
to Clayton, the sample of the contaminated meat was collected by S.C. Meat and Poultry Inspection in April, weeks before her company was notified that it contained E. coli.
If the test was done in April why didn't they know before now that there was a problem? she asks.
Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) tests - the kind government agencies rely on to confirm pathogen presence in food - usually take around a week to process, but this recall came well outside of that time frame.
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