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The latest recall is the most common in the dairy

Dec. 13, 2018 by Devin Jones

The latest recall is the most common in the dairy industry—more than 1,700 cases have been reported since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began tracking a variety of milk products in January. That's more than half of all milk products sold in 2017.

"All of these cases are related to the products they were sold in the past," said Scott Bader, head of industry compliance at the U.S. Dairy Industries Association. "You don't have this kind of a problem with these products. They're still going to be sold on the shelves in the U.S."

The recall comes at a time when the meat industry is gearing up to fight a recall of beef products, which were sold as beef jerky and dairy products before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration imposed restrictions in 2014.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been investigating beef-based products since 2009, a decade before cows began eating beef.

It has also been working on a recall of other dairy products that are not processed in the facility where the company is located, such as dairy yogurt and beef jerky.

This is a particularly bad time because it allows dairy producers to charge higher prices for their products, because of a ban on a large amount of processed milk that is produced in the United States.