Insurance professionals help clients grasp the risks and impacts of events like recalls or contamination, highlighting the importance of recall and contamination insurance for covering costs and providing crisis management support. CRC Group offers specialized expertise and extensive market access to help retail agents secure optimal coverage and manage complex risks effectively.

A recall can be costly for a food manufacturer. But what if the contaminated food is shipped to other manufacturers and used in other products? What if those products hit retail shelves? The potential cost of a recall can quickly become catastrophic if it extends to customers, distributors, and retailers.

As Americans grow increasingly anxious about the impacts of COVID-19 and public life is limited by social distancing, food production demands are changing. Product sales at retail locations are reaching unprecedented levels. This doesn’t mean people are eating more – just that they’re eating at home due to the closure of restaurant dining rooms and other public spaces.

Foodborne illnesses such as E. coli and salmonella sicken about one in six Americans, or about 48 million, and kill about 3,000 every year, the CDC estimates.