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Infographic: What's the 'real' cost of product recalls?

An infographic reveals the true cost of a product recall in the food industry, looking at how a product can become contaminated, and what companies can do to avoid it from happening.

July 17, 2017

Serving customers a product that has been recalled can be detrimental to any restaurant brand's reputation. It's also expensive. The cost of notifying the public, transporting the recalled stock and subsequently destroying the product can quickly amount to millions.

In this infographic, Rentokil calculated the true cost of a product recall in the food industry, looking at how a product can become contaminated, and what companies can do to avoid it from happening.