A Lubbock meat packer is voluntarily recalling more than 13,000 pounds of ground beef after federal inspectors found that the meat may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
Plains Meat Company sent the beef to restaurants and distributors in Amarillo and Lubbock.
The US Department of Agriculture says the potential hazard was discovered through routine
Plains Meat Company, LTD., a Lubbock, Texas, firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 13,078 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that the following items are being recalled:
Ray’s Wholesale Meats, a White, Ga., firm, is voluntaryily recalling approximately 120 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service says that the products subject to the recall are 10-pound packages of “Ray’s Wholesale Meats, Ground Beef, Net Wt 10 lbs,” with an
George G. Ruppersberger & Sons, Inc., a Baltimore, Md., firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 315 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The products subject to recall are 10-pound packages of “Ground Beef, Net Weight 10LBS”, with the establishment number “Est 5931” and the package code “627963”.
The ground
Fadler, Southwest Food Distributors, LLC, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 156,235 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The products recalled are various size cases of:
The ground beef products were distributed to
James Meikle of the Guardian reports that all dairy products made from unpasteurised milk by a French company were being withdrawn from sale yesterday following a food poisoning scare linked to butter and cheese.
Shoppers were told to check where goods came from after the Food Standards Agency extended its warning over products from Laiterie Fromagerie du Val d’Ay-etablissement Reaux in Normandy.
The FSA had ordered the withdrawal from sale of all Camembert cheese made by the company earlier this week over fears that it may have been contaminated with the food poisoning bug E coli O26 which can prove fatal to the very young and the elderly.
The Food Standards Agency was last night unable to say how many products were on sale in Britain or give a list of all the brand names. They had been imported through several channels and may be on sale at small delicatessens, farmers markets or food fairs as well as at other shops, it said.Continue Reading Shoppers told to check French cheese and butter in E coli scare
Russell Jackson of The Scotsman reports that the Food Standards Agency issued an urgent Food Alert about Camembert and Coulommiers cheese and Le Gaslonde unpasteurised butter because of possible contamination with a potentially lethal strain of E coli food poisoning.
The dairy products subject to recall are made in France by Laiterie Fromagerie du Val
Reuters in London has reported that Laiterie Fromagerie du Val d’Ay-Etablissement Reaux has pulled a few types of Camembert cheese from supermarkets, amid concern it may be contaminated with the E.coli bacterium, which can cause food poisoning.
The Food Standards Agency said the products present a potential health risk if eaten.
The withdrawn cheeses are
Canadian Safeway stores in Alberta and British Columbia have issued a recall of all regular, lean and extra-lean ground beef after at least 19 people got sick from E. coli poisoning, CTV reports.
The ill have included a baby and three children, one of whom is still in hospital in stable condition. One elderly person
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency as issued a voluntary recall for regular, lean, and extra lean ground beef products sold at at Canada Safeway stores in B.C. between October 6th and October 20th, according to CKNW News.
The ground beef products may have been contaminated with E. coli.
Several illnesses have been reported which