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San Diego-based weight loss specialty firm Jenny Craig sent its customers Salisbury steak and meatloaf meals made with beef from Chino's Westlands/Hallmark, the slaughterhouse whose abuse of crippled cows, caught on a hidden camera, created a stir and led to the largest beef recall in the nation's history.The Department of Agriculture said that people eating the meat have only a remote chance of getting ill. Still, the move was taken because of fear of mad cow disease. A Jenny Craig spokesperson told the Orange County Register that, "we are making every effort to inform those clients who are in receipt of impacted product." However, San Diegan Bonnie Russell, who has been eating the meatloaf, says, "I have not heard one word." A Jenny Craig spokesperson told Channel 10, "Since it was a relatively small number to begin with, we made a conscious decision not to alarm the vast majority of our clients by calling or emailing them. Rather we elected to post a client service announcement in an acrylic holder at the front desk of each centre." But, says Russell, there are any number of promotional materials in those acrylic holders and it would not be easy to find the warnings. I called and emailed Jenny Craig's PR staff this morning (Sat.) several times without getting a response.
San Diego-based weight loss specialty firm Jenny Craig sent its customers Salisbury steak and meatloaf meals made with beef from Chino's Westlands/Hallmark, the slaughterhouse whose abuse of crippled cows, caught on a hidden camera, created a stir and led to the largest beef recall in the nation's history.The Department of Agriculture said that people eating the meat have only a remote chance of getting ill. Still, the move was taken because of fear of mad cow disease. A Jenny Craig spokesperson told the Orange County Register that, "we are making every effort to inform those clients who are in receipt of impacted product." However, San Diegan Bonnie Russell, who has been eating the meatloaf, says, "I have not heard one word." A Jenny Craig spokesperson told Channel 10, "Since it was a relatively small number to begin with, we made a conscious decision not to alarm the vast majority of our clients by calling or emailing them. Rather we elected to post a client service announcement in an acrylic holder at the front desk of each centre." But, says Russell, there are any number of promotional materials in those acrylic holders and it would not be easy to find the warnings. I called and emailed Jenny Craig's PR staff this morning (Sat.) several times without getting a response.