USDA Releases Retail List in Beef Recall

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USDA Releases Retail List in Beef Recall

by Helena Bottemiller | Dec 08, 2009

Friday the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Beef Packers, Inc, owned by Cargill, was recalling over 22,000 pounds of ground beef products due to possible contamination with Salmonella Newport, a potentially deadly pathogen.

Yesterday the agency released a list of over hundred Safeway stores in Arizona (pdf) that received the recalled meat.

The recalled products were produced on September 23, 2009 and bear establishment number "EST. 31913" on the cases they were shipped in.

According to USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the ground beef was repackaged and sold under several different retail brand names, so consumers must check with their retail stores to ensure their ground beef is not part of the recall.

The ongoing investigation has tied the recall to two illnesses in Arizona.

"The Salmonella Newport strain was isolated both from the patients and from the ground beef produced by Est. 31913," according to FSIS. "They were also linked by their uncommon pulse-filed gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern found in PulseNet, a national network of public health and food regulatory agency laboratories coordinated by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention."

Consumers with questions or concerns about the meat recalls should contact the company directly (877) 435-4071.

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Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
12/09/2009
1:43PM

Food Recalls USDA Releases Retail List in Beef Recall by Helena Bottemiller | Dec 08, 2009

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2009/12/usda-releases-retail-list-in-safeway-beef-recall/

Greetings,

It amazes how parents and people in general, can get all twisted up over a few animals being abused (not that I support animal abuse), but yet not say a word about their children being abused (poisoned in my opinion). Case in point, the USDA CERTIFIED DEAD STOCK DOWNER COW SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. MY point, for 4 years or more, our children, all across the Nation was fed dead stock downer cows, the most high risk animal for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy i.e. BSE aka mad cow disease (and there is more than just one strain documented). NOW, the FDA, and the USDA, will try and tell you that it is nothing to worry about, we have triple BSE firewalls in place. I can tell you with absolute certainty, that is not the case. They think they do, but they have only been kidding themselves, and at the same time, gambling with the lives of many with this charade. THE USA Bovine is not exempt from the TSE prion agent. you cannot hide from them, and you can only hide them for so long. you cannot kill them, and they know no boundaries or borders or age group (in terms of CJD reportable only in the 55 and or younger age groups only, this defies common sense and science). THE UKBSEnvCJD only theory is wrong, one of which that consists of only the UK bovine, that of only one strain, the human TSE there from i.e. nvCJD, and that there from of only one strain, in only one Geographical location of the globe, when the same feeding and rendering practices mirrored that of the UK, only the UK started some 5 years before we did, and scrapie, and all of the strains there from typical and atypical, all of which are right here in the USA, and have been, where humans of old age group, and young age group are dyeing from CJD, long and short incubation, some with kuru type amyloid plaques, some with the same symptoms as the nvCJD. the systematic failure of all agencies in the august 4, 1997 partial and voluntary mad cow feed ban, and the systematic failure in the enhanced BSE surveillance of 2004, all PROVEN to be such. ONE cannot say that many have not been exposed. one can only thank God, that only a few have been documented that went clinical, to date. but who will watch the children for the next 5+ decades? i'm serious, who will watch these kids that were exposed all across our Nation for 4 years or more to the dead stock downer cow school lunch program, where the most high risk cattle for BSE/TSE i.e. dead stock downers were fed to our kids??? this is what i don't understand, these parents will get their panty hose all twisted up because a few animals were abused, and do absolutely nothing about the fact there kids were abused, and in fact, in my opinion, poisoned. this is a disease that can incubate without symptoms for over 5 decades, or not, for some it's shorter, but once clinical, it is 100% fatal. with atypical TSE spreading, one can only guess of what the infectious dose is ??? I guess, hope it's minimal and forget about it, or hope everybody else does. ..i refuse too. ...

WHO WILL WATCH THE CHILDREN FOR CJD OVER THE NEXT 5 + DECADES ???

do you actually believe that the USDA et al jumped in on the law suit against Westland/Hallmark, at the time the largest beef recall in USA history, just because a few animals were abused on a video, or to cover their ass, for letting our children, from school district to school district, from state to state, be fed dead stock downer cows.

>>>In the papers, the government alleges the meatpacking plant slaughtered and processed downer cows for nearly four years — from January 2004 to September 2007 — at the average rate of one every six weeks...95%) downer or dead dairy cattle...

http://web.archive.org/web/20030516051623/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m09/tab05.pdf

Friday, September 4, 2009

FOIA REQUEST ON FEED RECALL PRODUCT 429,128 lbs. feed for ruminant animals may have been contaminated with prohibited material Recall # V-258-2009

http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/09/foia-request-on-feed-recall-product.html

Saturday, August 29, 2009

FOIA REQUEST FEED RECALL 2009 Product may have contained prohibited materials Bulk Whole Barley, Recall # V-256-2009

http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/08/foia-request-feed-recall-2009-product.html

----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." To: Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:25 PM Subject: [BSE-L] re-FOIA REQUEST ON FEED RECALL PRODUCT contaminated with prohibited material Recall # V-258-2009 and Recall # V-256-2009

http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/11/re-foia-request-on-feed-recall-product.html

PLEASE be aware, for 4 years, the USDA fed our children all across the Nation dead stock downer cows, the most high risk cattle for BSE aka mad cow disease and other dangerous pathogens. who will watch our children for CJD for the next 5+ decades ???

SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM FROM DOWNER CATTLE UPDATE

http://downercattle.blogspot.com/2009/05/who-will-watch-children.html

http://downercattle.blogspot.com/

please see full text here ;

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

SEAC EFFECT OF AGE ON THE PATHOGENESIS OF TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES SEAC 103/2

http://downercattle.blogspot.com/2009/11/seac-effect-of-age-on-pathogenesis-of.html

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

R-CALF: 40 Groups Disagree With USDA's Latest BSE Court Submission

http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2009/11/r-calf-40-groups-disagree-with-usdas.html

Monday, October 19, 2009

Atypical BSE, BSE, and other human and animal TSE in North America Update October 19, 2009