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USDA – FSIS Recall Release
FSIS-RC-029-2008
CLASS I RECALL
HEALTH RISK: HIGH
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2008 – Nebraska Beef, Ltd., an Omaha, Neb., establishment is recalling approximately 1.2 million pounds of primal cuts, subprimal cuts and boxed beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection
Whole Foods, paragon of the natural food marketplace, linked to an E. coli outbreak tied to Nebraska Beef Ltd.? Goodness! According to the Boston Globe this morning, Massachusetts health authorities are warning consumers not to eat ground beef bought from Whole Foods Markets over the last two months after seven E. coli O157:H7 infections have
Lisa Crutchfield of the Times-Dispatch reported this morning that about 84 people who attended the camp at the reservation between July 20 and Aug. 2 have shown symptoms of the E. coli O157:H7 infection. Twenty-five children in Northern Virginia have been lab-confirmed with the E. coli O157H7 infection and eight Virginia Scouts have required hospitalization,
We have recently learned of individuals in Northern California who have become seriously ill after consuming raw cow’s milk tainted with the bacteria campylobacter. At least one person remains hospitalized after consuming the milk and developing Guillain-Barré (ghee-yan bah-ray) syndrome (GBS). GBS is a disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks part of
Since the spring of 2007, the following E. coli O157:H7, Class I Recalls have been announced – amounting to over 39,000,000 pounds – 19,500 tons – of E. coli-tainted meat being recalled. Hundreds have been sickened, many seriously. The latest recall by S&S Meats of 153,630 pounds has been linked to as many as 70
I went to bed late last night waiting to confirm this recall, but it still had not shown up on the FSIS recall site – even as of this morning. But, here it is from several reliable sources:
CLASS I RECALL
HEALTH RISK: HIGH
S&S Foods LLC., an Azusa, Calif., firm (S&S Foods, LLC manufactures
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The Washington Post reports this evening that “E. coli [O157:H7] found in ground beef at a Boy Scout camp in Goshen, Va., matches bacteria found in [stool] samples taken from some sick campers, lab tests have confirmed, and a state health official called beef the "prime suspect" in the outbreak that shut down the
In just a year and a half, the American meat industry has experienced a whiplash of beef recalls. 40 million pounds of meat tainted with highly toxic E. coli O157:H7 has been publicly recalled, up by a staggering factor of two hundred from the 2006 amount of only 181,900 pounds.
“This is beyond the ‘wheels
The wheels have come off the hamburger industry. Since the Spring of 2007 it has sickened hundreds – the young, the old – grandma’s and boy scouts. Here are the recalls:
Natural State Meat Company 1/29/07 4,240 FSIS Recall – E coli
Tyson Fresh Meats 3/2/07 16,743 FSIS Recall – E coli
Richwood Meat Company
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As I said in a press release today:
An outbreak of the highly toxic strain of E. coli O157:H7 in the Boston area appears to be part of a multi-state outbreak that has sickened more than 50 people in seven states. The E. coli in the six confirmed illnesses in Boston has the same genetic
