For the third consecutive year, Food Safety Magazine has sorted through all of last year’s food recalls to provide an overview of how the food industry is doing. This year, we tallied recalls announced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. In our 2017 analysis, we did not include recalls announced by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
A total of 456 food recalls in the U.S. were recorded for 2017. The numbers can get confusing for a myriad of reasons. Let’s look at a couple of examples.