E. Coli Recall: Huntington Meat Packing Recalls 864,000 Pounds Of Beef

MONTEBELLO, Calif. — A Southern California meat-packing firm has recalled some 864,000 pounds of ground-beef that might be contaminated with E. coli.

The Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Monday that no illnesses have been reported from the products sold by Montebello-based Huntington Meat Packing Inc. under the Huntington, Imperial Meat Co. and El Rancho brands.

The affected beef was sold to distribution centers, restaurants and hotels in California between Feb. 19 and May 15, 2008, and between Jan 5. and Jan. 15, 2010.

Huntington did not return a phone message.

Officials say department personnel discovered the problem during a food safety assessment.

Comments

[LMPE]

10:52 PM on 01/19/2010

Wouldn't it make more sense to recall ALL beef?

[Stacey Linck-Citraro]

09:57 PM on 01/19/2010

No worries here but very sad knowing the poor souls who gave their lives died for no reason! If you care about animals/planet, check out my website for ways you can help.

[PartisanLove]

07:14 PM on 01/19/2010

These warnings are always late. Love the 2008 dates.

[HSC55]

05:32 PM on 01/19/2010

Buy your meat from a local farmer and have it processed by a small local butcher. I bought a pig from a 4H kid at the county fair this summer. I buy my fruits and vegies from local farm stands. Start doing the same and then you don't have too much to worry about when the broadcast these food recalls.

[ecochik]

05:14 PM on 01/19/2010

Gross.

That is all.

[VeganSue]

05:03 PM on 01/19/2010

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[ecochik]

05:15 PM on 01/19/2010

Yay for you! I'm in the process of going vegan myself. It's amazing and I already feel more amazing.

[Committee of One]

02:07 PM on 01/19/2010

I thought that if meat was cooked properly, the e.coli was killed. Are there that many poor cooks in this country or has eating raw beef become a fad?

[ecochik]

05:15 PM on 01/19/2010

Ewe I certainly hope people are eating raw beef!!!!! That's disgusting.

[blindhog]

01:34 PM on 01/19/2010

Probably the least healthy type of meat to eat from the grocery store is meat that has been ground up before being shipped to the grocer. Unless it has noted on the package that the meat came from one cow, it is a combination of the least desirable cuts from many cows.

Many of these meat packers have imported labor from outside of the United States to work in these packing houses. Why our government allows this to happen is beyond me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, we have such high unemployment, the fact that our government has allowed immigrants to take the jobs from United States citizens is obscene.

[paliuli]

01:30 PM on 01/19/2010

Wow, I guess the ammonia they put on the 'pink slime' didn't work in this case.

[sheila]

11:47 AM on 01/19/2010

Who would people still eat commercially-produced ground meat when they know how many foreign substances get mixed in? Poop, blood, rodents, dirt, spinal material, brain matter, insects, you name it - it is disgusting in the extreme. and NOTHING HAS CHANGED since the huge publicity over e.coli in 1992 except they want us to cook the poop longer? Which won't help with the brain and spinal matter causing mad cow.

YUCK!

[emily00011]

11:24 AM on 01/19/2010

a little regulation goes a long way!

no corporation is ever going to protect your health if it cost even one fraction of a penny.

gop'rs fight regs tooth and nail - shows just what they think of YOU.

[jpeters100]

10:56 AM on 01/19/2010

Good reason to be vegan.

[seakat]

04:21 PM on 01/19/2010

e-coli can affect vegies too.

[BebeLush]

04:54 PM on 01/19/2010

Right! Peanut butter, tomatos, spinach and lettuce has all been recalled for e-coli poisoning. Still, it all comes down to farm factories dumping their waste into the environment.

[yemaya]

07:19 PM on 01/19/2010

true, remember the spinach scare last year and the peanut butter

[pointy]

09:58 AM on 01/19/2010

Here we go again!