The us d a doesn't have legal authority to order a recall. They can only really do that when they have almost like smoking gun evidence. So because it was in 76 different plants, they knew that from testing that the government itself had done,. But they couldn't stop it from being sold and they couldn't pull it back.
A deadly salmonella strain is spreading through American poultry, and there’s not much the government can do to stop it. ProPublica’s Bernice Yeung explains.
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