Manning Beef, LLC, a Pico Rivera, Calif. establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately 80,000 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The following products are subject to recall:
Todays announcement of an E. coli ground beef outbreak that has caused illnesses in Butler County, Ohio, might make some people wonder how often it has happened in the state. Or, at least, how many times ground beef has caused E. coli illnesses in Ohio residents (Tyson’s facility in this outbreak is in Kansas).
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc., an Emporia, Kan. establishment, is recalling approximately 131,300 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The following products are subject to recall:
The Cowans Gap E. coli O157:H7 outbreak this summer, thought to be associated with swimming at the lake, caused a lot of suffering. At least 15 ill, and according to press accounts, over half of those developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS.
Two-year-old Madisyn Myers (at left, at the Cowan’s Gap beach) was one of
Maybe it was Bill Marler’s $500,000 study on non-O157 STECs (finding non-O157 STEC contamination of retail ground beef in about 1% of samples), or maybe it was his petition to USDA-FSIS to finally call a spade a spade and declare that the “big six” non-O157 STECs are “adulterants.” Whatever the case, the case for outlawing things in our
Twenty years is a long time for a law firm to focus exclusively on litigating just food cases, but the food industry seems hell-bent on keeping Marler Clark in business. And with two more late-summer E. coli ground beef outbreaks to contend with (McNees Meats in Michigan, and JB Meats in Ohio)
Michigan now counts 9 people from Lapeer, Genesee, Isabella, and Sanilac counties as victims of the ground beef E. coli O157:NM outbreak associated with beef from McNees Meats and Wholesale LLC. The Michigan Departments of Community Health (MDCH) and Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) have issued a public health alert concerning the outbreak. Among the
A small cluster of two illnesses from the Cincinnati, Ohio area have prompted JB Meats, also from Cincinnati, to recall 72,800 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated by E. coli O157:H7. According to press accounts, the products subject to recall are 5 and 10 pound clear packages of ground beef and ground beef patties
At last count, 11 children have been sickened in the Chambersburg, PA area by E. coli O157:H7, possibly from exposure to the bacteria at the Cowans Gap State Park lake. 8 of those children have gone on to develop kidney failure and hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS. At least one of those 8 remains hospitalized at
Before the summer started, at least two companies had recalled ground beef products due to E. coli O157:H7 contamination in 2011. One was a 3,170 pound ground beef product recall by American Food Services, from Pico Rivera, California, and another was Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, which recalled approximately 14,158 pounds of ground beef products back in March. Then: