Routine testing by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) found that ground beef produced by Bob’s Food City, a Hot Springs, Arkansas based retailer was contaminated with the deadly E coli 0157:H7.
The finding brought today’s recall by the grocer of 375 pounds of ground beef. It was produced on May 7th with
FSIS is out with a recall of approximately 4,663 pounds of ground beef products from Alex & George Wholesale, Inc., a Rochester, New York firm, because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The following products are subject to recall:
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* 10-pound poly bag of "A & G Brand BULK GROUND BEEF"
* 10-pound poly
Okay, so 2008 was NOT as big a year for E. coli recalls as was 2007.
Total amount of beef recalled last year was around seven million pounds; far less than the 29 million pounds recalled during 2007.
Still, we are talking about measurements in the MILLIONS OF POUNDS, something that we could
Long Branch, NJ-based Dutch Prime Foods Inc. yesterday recalled 345 pounds of ground beef due to contamination from E coli 0157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service reported.
The Class 1, High Health Risk Recall involves ground beef products were produced on Nov. 18 and distributed to restaurants in New Jersey.
In a world where financial markets around the globe can all either light up or melt down in an
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
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.
The Denver-based King Soopers and City Market stores are asking customers to check for the following recalled frozen
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.
According to the Food Safety & Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture:
These ground beef products were distributed to restaurants and sold to consumers in the
USDA – FSIS Recall Release
FSIS-RC-029-2008
CLASS I RECALL
HEALTH RISK: HIGH
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2008 – Nebraska Beef, Ltd., an Omaha, Neb., establishment is recalling approximately 1.2 million pounds of primal cuts, subprimal cuts and boxed beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection
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?
Continue Reading Beef Industry Food Safety System “Clearly Broken,” Marler Says As FSIS Announces Yet Another Recall
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).
Fresno, CA-based Beef Packers Inc. is the company calling