Scratch Nebraska Beef from your July 4th menu. The notorious Omaha slaughterhouse today expanded its June 30th recall to FIVE POINT THREE MILLION POUNDS!
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.
Originally, the Nebraska Beef recall was
Omaha’s notorious Nebraska Beef is responsible for a new Class 1, High Health risk recall of 531,707 pounds of "ground beef components" that may be contaminated with E. coli 0157:H7.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service made the announcement late Monday.
The E. coli tainted Nebraska Beef was discovered by FSIS through traceback investigations and
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.
FSIS is continuing its investigation into any products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 or that are associated with illnesses and will take appropriate action when necessary.
Kroger brand ground beef samples were collected by the Michigan and Ohio Departments of Agriculture and Health from patients in Michigan and Ohio. Nebraska Beef, Ltd., was identified as a common supplier to those stores in addition to two federally inspected establishments where FSIS obtained a positive ground beef sample that was matched to the outbreak strain identified in Michigan and Ohio.
The epidemiological investigations and a case control study conducted by the Michigan and Ohio Departments of Agriculture and Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that there is an association between the ground beef products and 35 illnesses reported in Michigan (17) and Ohio (18). The illnesses were linked through the epidemiological investigation and by their PFGE pattern, or DNA fingerprint, found in PulseNet, a database maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Also as a result of the investigation, on June 25 FSIS announced a recall of ground beef products sold at Kroger retail establishments in Michigan and Central and Northwestern Ohio Kroger retail establishments.
The following products subject to recall include:
The complete FSIS recall information can be found here. Keep reading for more below.Continue Reading Ohio/Michigan E. coli Outbreak Linked To Nebraska Beef; Big Recall In the Works; We Are Shocked!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is out tonight with a
Class 1, High Health Risk recall of ground beef products sold by the Ohio-based Kroger grocery store chain.
The ground beef products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 and are already implicated in a Michigan/Ohio outbreak involving more
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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
There’s a Class 1, High Health Risk recall of 13,275 pounds of ground beef underway in the Trenton,
N.J. area due to possible contamination with E. coli 0157:H7.
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The ground
When the U.S. Food & Drug Administration announces your recall on its website, it’s not like you really have a choice. Nonetheless, most companies use the occasion to tout how they’ve acted voluntarily. This one is good example:
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DOD issued the recalled after conducting lab tests on one beef supplier to the military. Anyone who purchased ground
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Dr. John Fruin, chief of the Bureau of Food and Meat Inspection for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, admitted to the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper that the state has known that Santa Rosa Cheese, Naturally Aged White Cheese, may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
Dr. Fruin told the newspaper that "the reason
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