Late Friday night, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Cargill Inc. is recalling about 8,500 pounds of ground beef for possible E. coli contamination.
According to the USDA,
A one million pound recall of ground beef contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 associated with an outbreak in California may have come too late to do much good.
Still,
Summer was only a day old when E. coli O157:H7 contamination brought the first large ground beef recall of the season.
Routine microbiological sampling by the U.S. Department
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has found E. coli O157 contamination in the beef at a Bay Shore, NY processing company.
As
Montclair Meat Co., Inc., of Montclair, California, announced yesterday that part of the approximately 53,000 pounds of ground beef the company recalled for potential E. coli contamination on May
California-based Montclair Meat Company Inc. issued a recall May 15 for approximately 53,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to
WinCo Foods announced Saturday that it is issuing an expansion of a Class 1 recall of fresh ground beef products to include ground beef sold at all of its retail
Going into this past weekend, on April 10, WinCo Foods recalled all ground beef products sold at its Modesto, CA store between April 3 and 9, 2010.
The Class 1,
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced a bill Monday that would set more specific guidelines for disseminating food recall information to consumers and health care providers, and it appears Democratic leaders
1. New York Times reporter Michael Moss introduced readers to Stephanie Smith, a children’s dance instructor from Minnesota who is partially paralyzed from E. coli O157:H7. In Moss’
Williston, VT-based Harrington and Sons late Monday recalled approximately 68 pounds of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The U.S. Department of
A lawsuit was filed on December 4, 2009, against Cargill seeking at least $100 million to compensate Stephanie Smith for the tragic, life-changing injuries that she suffered as a result