E. Coli Prompts Recall Of 8,500 Pounds Of Ground Beef

The Washington Post:

About 8,500 pounds of ground beef that might be contaminated with a type of E. coli bacteria are being recalled by a company in Pennsylvania, the Department of Agriculture announced Saturday.

The department said its Food Safety and Inspection Service found a link between the recalled ground beef and three instances of illness in New York and Maine.

The service said Cargill Meat Solutions of Wyalusing, Pa., shipped the beef in question in cases of 14-pound packages, called chubs, to distribution centers in Connecticut and Maryland for further distribution in smaller packages for consumers. They were sold under different retail brand names, the department said.

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Comments

[DavidMG]

08:34 AM on 09/07/2010

Never been a better been time to go vegetarian. 'American Wholefoods Cuisine' is the "vegetarian Joy of Cooking."

[Vlad Tepes]

08:33 PM on 09/02/2010

It looks like maggots

[xstevejx]

10:20 PM on 09/01/2010

Just cook it properly and eat it! Suddenly got a hankerin' for some meatballs now!

[specultr]

01:27 AM on 09/06/2010

So you like your cow sh*t cooked properly? Where do you think the E Coli comes from?

[BluebirdofUnhappiness]

09:54 PM on 08/31/2010

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm224494.htm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 30, 2010 - Morningland Dairy of Mountain View, Missouri, is recalling 68,957 pounds of cheese because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and also has the potential to be contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus.

Morningland Dairy’s raw milk cheese is sold in the lower 48 states via mail order, retail stores, crop sharing associations, and direct delivery. The cheese is packaged in vacuum-sealed plastic packages that are sold as random weight size retail packages.

...just sayin'

[blueskybigstar]

04:11 PM on 08/31/2010

For the respect of the lives of the animals, can we at least give them room to free range and keep them clean so that we don't have to throw their remains away because of contamination?

[honeybear64]

06:15 AM on 09/01/2010

Excellent point. One thing that always seems to go missing in these articles about recalled animal products is the fact that animals gave their lives for absolutely no reason at all.

[newtom]

02:24 PM on 08/31/2010

Oh great! Now we can make a meatloaf with e coli ground beef and salmonella eggs. Perhaps we can throw in some moldy bread.

[satanlite]

11:35 AM on 08/31/2010

Conservative policies at work once again.