US: More beef might be tainted, states told - (The Columbus Dispatch)
November 26, 2007 – 11:49 pmThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service was cited as warning several Midwestern states, including Ohio, that about 96,000 pounds of ground beef might be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
With a late-October expiration date, you might already have eaten it, either at home or in a restaurant. Or it could be awaiting its culinary cue in your freezer.
Jim Mulhern, a spokesman for American Foods Group, was quoted as saying, “It’s something that, unfortunately, happens with a raw product like ground beef. It’s not 100 percent preventable.”
And although the size of the voluntary recall from the American Foods Group beef-processing plant in Green Bay, Wis., doesn’t rival the 21 million pounds recalled from Topps Meat Co. in September, it is likely to cause a few headaches.
The story says that the meat isn’t labeled as an American Foods Group product.
The company, based in Green Bay, processed the beef for […]
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