Creepy creeping beef recall continues in Canada - (barfblog)
November 23, 2007 – 10:47 pmhttp://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2007/11/articles/e-coli/creepy-creeping-beef-recall-continues-in-canada/index.html
What is going on at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency?
Yesterday, CFIA and Cardinal Meat Specialists Ltd. yet again expanded a creeping recall of hamburgers possibly contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 to more burgers, and said no one had gotten sick from any of the products.
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/recarapp/2007/20071122e.shtml
Maybe not any of the newly recalled products — most with a best before date of June 2007, nice gumshoe work, CFIA — but a Nov. 13/07 CFIA press release said Cardinal Meat Specialists Ltd. was recalling some burgers and that one person was sick with E. coli O157:H7 from those lots of burgers.
www.inspection.gc.ca.
The story begins Sept. 29/07 when Topps Meat of New Jersey issued the second largest ground beef recall in U.S. history. After 40 illnesses in eight states, and recalling 21.7 million pounds of frozen hamburger — one year’s worth of production — Topps filed for bankruptcy Wednesday.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-11-23-topps_N.htm
On October 26, USDA said a now-defunct […]
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