Looks like JBS Swift USA has one customer coming forward on its own.
The Kroger Co. and its Fry’s, Smith’s, and Food 4 Less stores are all asking customers to check their freezers and return any beef with April 27-June 1 sell-by dates. The Smith’s website has a good summary.
Kroger said it was
E. coli O157:H7 originates in the intestines of cattle. Cattle, as many as 6,000 a day, are killed, processed and packed at the Greeley Beef Plant owned by JBS Swift USA.
Yet JBS says the beef products it has recalled were contaminated outside their Colorado slaughtering plant because it was their customers that through trimming and
The world’s largest beef producer is now responsible for the year’s largest E. coli O157:H7 beef-related outbreak to date in America. The entry of JBS into a dominant position in the U.S. beef industry has been both recent and quick.
Dick and Charlie Monfort, who today together lead the group that owns the Colorado Rockies
This just came in from your federal government:
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it has found E. coli O157:H7 (a bacterium that can cause serious food borne illness) in a sample of prepackaged Nestlé Toll House refrigerated cookie dough currently under recall by the manufacturer and marketer, Nestlé USA. The
Recall Release CLASS I RECALL
FSIS-RC-034-2009 HEALTH RISK: HIGH
This recall release is being reissued to expand the June 24 recall to include approximately 380,000 pounds of assorted beef primal products.
JBS Swift Beef Company, a Greeley, Colo., establishment is voluntarily expanding its June 24 recall to include approximately 380,000 pounds of assorted beef primal
At least when Nestles USA announced that it was recalling all its Toll House cookie products, the public knew which retailers were involved. Every retail grocery in the country provides generous space for Nestle products.
Nestle is currently at the center of the largest E. coli recall and largest E. coli outbreak in the country, and
Beef products produced in Colorado by the Brazilian-owned JBS Swift Beef Company on April 21 and 22, 2009, and then shipped to distributors and retail establishments in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin are now being recalled.
The problem –possible contamination by E. coli 0157:H7– was discovered through federal microbiological sampling and an "investigation into the distribution of other products."
Frankly, we are not sure what that part about an investigation means. It could mean people are already sick.
All totaled, the Greeley, CO-based JBS Swift Beef Company issued a recall for 41,280 pounds of beef, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
It is the seventh recall of beef contaminated by E. coli 0157:H7 this year. Continue reading for the complete list of beef products subject to the recall.Continue Reading Brazil’s JBS Swift Beef Company Issues Recall For E. coli-tainted Beef In 13 States
We borrow this from the Marler Blog, where it was filed earlier today:
An E. coli lawsuit was filed today on behalf of a Denver-area child who became gravely ill with E. coli O157:H7 after eating refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the family of Madison Sedbrook
The sixth beef recall over possible E. coli 0157:H7 contamination this season occurred Monday when Chicago’s International Meat Company Inc. called back a total of 6,152 of ground beef products.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) scored the recall as a Class I event with high health risk.
