date:May 16, 2013
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration documented 316 food and beverage recalls in the first quarter of fiscal 2013, down from 552 in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to an ExpertRecall Index from Stericyle ExpertRecall. The first-quarter recalls affected 9.7 million items, which was nearly half of the number of the fourth quarter, when about 18.4 million items were affected.
In the first quarter of 2013, 133 companies initiated food and beverage recalls. Forty-nine of the companies faced m