Article: How I Survived A Product Recall!

No food service company large or small is immune from the dangers of a product recall. Just ask Al Feucht, owner of Brandon Meats and Sausage, Inc., a meat processor with 25 employees located in Brandon, Wisconsin, 90 miles south of Green Bay. On May 21, 2001, Feucht, who has worked in the retail and wholesale slaughtering meat business for over 20 years, found his life a stress-ridden nightmare after state meat inspectors informed him of a Listeria contamination. Suddenly, the company he had owned since 1985 and which processed more than nine tons of meat each week for local customers, was teetering. It is a personal tale all in the food industry can profit from.