The Associated Press and New York Times just reported on the impetus behind the testing that caused WinCo to issue its large-scale meat recall: us. The positive tests were generated during a study that Marler Clark had comissioned on the presence of E. coli in retail beef samples. The Times reports:
A ground beef recall
Yesterday, WinCo Foods expanded its April 10 ground beef recall to include all ground beef sold at all WinCo stores between March 26, 2010 and April 9, 2010. The original recall included only ground beef sold at the Modesto, California store. The recall was announced after testing at a private laboratory of retail samples of ground beef showed