North Carolina Firm Recalls 96,000 Pounds of Beef Products Due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination
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WASHINGTON, March 2, 2010 - Randolph Packing Co. Inc., an Asheboro, N.C. establishment, is recalling approximately 96,000 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced March 2. The products subject to recall include:
Combo bin packages of "Randolph Packing Co., Inc. BONELESS BEEF."
Combo bin packages of "Randolph Packing Co. Knuckles 90% & 94%."
30 lbs. boxes of "Beef Ribeye Rolls."
Each package label bears the establishment number "EST. 6590" inside the USDA mark of inspection.
The products were produced on February 25, 2010, and were distributed to federal establishments for further processing in Ill., Mo., N.Y., Ohio, and Va. None of these products are available directly to consumers.
The problem was discovered through FSIS microbiological sampling.
National Steak and Poultry, an Owasso, Okla., establishment, is recalling approximately 248,000 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The Daily Gleaner of Fredericton, New Brunswick reported on yet another E. coli outbreak linked to salads prepared at a Wendy’s.
Vineland, NJ-based Pasha Halal Poultry, doing business as Marcacci Meats, a Vineland, N.J., recalled approximately 128 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced late Monday.
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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 
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.
They might have a harder time finding the gleaming headquarters building for JBS Swift USA, which today owns that Greeley packing plant and 15 others in the United States. JBS is located in “The Promontory” as far away to the West as you can get from the meat processing facility the Monfort family sold to ConAgra in 1987 for $300 million and still be in Greeley.
JBS pulled out of sale, leaving it No. 3 in the U.S. behind Tyson’s and Cargill. It did last year buy the Smithfield Beef Group, including the Five Rivers Cattle feed lot operation. 
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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.(2).jpg)
However, the problem was discovered through an epidemiological investigation of illnesses, NOT before the meat made it between hamburger buns. On May 13, 2009, FSIS was informed by the Ohio Department of Health of a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 infections. Illnesses have now been reported in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. About a dozen people were sickened and one young girl in Ohio died.
The latest recall involves just 75 pounds of fresh beef trim products from Snow Creek Meat Processing in Seneca, SC. The bad meat was discovered through FSIS microbiological sampling.
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ILLINOIS FIRM RECALLS GROUND BEEF PRODUCTS DUE E. COLI O157:H7 CONTAMINATION
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* 10-pound poly bag of "A & G Brand BULK GROUND BEEF"
There were three times as many recalls the following year, 2007, and the amounts involved were mind-boggling ending up in 18 recalls totaling 29 million pounds.
instant, the path meat takes to our tables should not come as a surprise. Still, we are reminded how quickly these linkages can catch up with us when the United States is recalling Nicaraguan-produced beef being distributed by a packer in Puerto Rico.
Two units of the Kroger grocery store empire, King Soopers and City
Markets, who are unfortunate enough to be big customers of Nebraska Beef Limited are asking their own customers for help recovering E. coli tainted beef.
Renna's Meat Market at First Street and Ashlan Avenue in Fresno, CA, is recalling 780 pounds of ground beef due to possible contamination with E. coli 0157:H7.
inspection as well as the brand “Coleman Natural.” However, these products were sent to establishments and retail stores nationwide for further processing and will likely not bear the establishment number “EST. 19336” on products available for direct consumer purchase.
What will it take to get someone to do something to fix a food safety system in the beef industry that is clearly broken? More illnesses and deaths? Grandma's in ICU's in Georgia and sick Boy Scouts not enough? What will it take? One thing for certain, the only person to benefit from this is me! We have never had more E. coli cases linked to contaminated beef in our office since the Jack in the Box outbreak of 1993. And, I thought the meat industry did not like me.
Not exactly a big one, but still a Class I, High health risk recall of 1,560 pounds of beef cheek products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 was announced late today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS).
The recall now includes all beef trimmings and other products intended for use in raw ground beef processed between May 16 and June 26, 2008.
ground beef samples collected from two federally inspected establishments positive for E. coli O157:H7, as well as multiple samples of Kroger brand ground beef positive for E. coli O157:H7, with matching pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns. 
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Recall, Recall, where is the recall? We know that dozens of people are sickened in Michigan in Ohio, but FSIS/USDA has not issued a recall? I can not imagine why there would not be, perhaps they thought since we are focused on tomatoes no one would notice? We have also been contacted by victims in other states who may be linked to a nationwide E. coli outbreak.
meat came from. Early press reports from the Ohio papers suggested that Dutch's Meat in New Jersey’s recall of 13,275 pounds of hamburger on June 8 after discovering that it might have been tainted with the sometimes-lethal bacteria might be linked. However, Dutch's gets its meat from three or four suppliers. If the strains match, it's possible that one of those companies sold him tainted meat and also distributed that meat to Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere, he said. Granaldi would not name a meat supplier but said that one in the Midwest might be the source. "They probably distribute all over the country," he said.
Over the years we have done several dozen food cases in Michigan: Black Forest Bakery Salmonella Case, Dole Spinach E. coli Case, ConAgra Potpie Salmonella Case and Bravo Cucina Italiana Norovirus Case. And, in Ohio: King Garden, E. coli Case, Corky and Lenny Salmonella Case, Sam’s Club E. coli, Dole Spinach E. coli Case, KFC E. coli Case and ConAgra Beef E. coli. 
N.J. area due to possible contamination with E. coli 0157:H7.
Orval Kent Foods is voluntarily recalling approximately 23,000 pounds of Amish Macaroni Salad that may pose a health risk.
pounds of ground beef products because of fear it may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7
This "Health Hazard Alert" in Canada is pretty much like a recall in the United States, except there isn't much focus on returning the product nor on how much meat is actually involved. Still, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in both English and French is saying: "Do not consume this ground beef!" - "Ne pas manger cette viande hachée!" 
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