This three-day exhibition hosts the world's most important gathering of ingredients suppliers, distributors and buyers.
The ingredients all come from a central distribution center, Mr. Lynch said, that can trace the ingredients' suppliers by product code.
When a restaurant needs salad ingredients, suppliers often mix vegetables from a variety of farms — making a trace to the source close to impossible.
We will continue to evaluate our ingredients, suppliers and product formulas to give you the best products possible.
But new cases were reported in Germany last week involving a different manufacturer and raw-ingredient supplier.
But the recent outbreaks have shown that a single sloppy ingredient supplier can damage large segments of the food industry.
And as with almost everything touched over the years by Mr. Nakoula — a former gas station manager, bong salesman, methamphetamine ingredient supplier and convicted con man — it is almost impossible to separate fact from fabrication.
What was apparent was not only the emphasis on health-promoting ingredients but also the growing importance of China as a food ingredient supplier — even as its products have come under increased scrutiny amid reports of contaminated seafood, pet food ingredients and toothpaste.
Not so in Thomas' case, said Theresa Cogswell, a baking industry consultant who spent a good portion of the 1980s and 1990s trying to break Thomas' English muffin code, first for a bakery ingredient supplier and later for Hostess (then known as Interstate Brands).
An ingredient supplier noticed the problem on June 6, and notified Tyson that the bread crumbs the company uses may have contained milk, according to the USDA.
