Beef recall issued December 4th. Beef Packers, Inc. recalled 22,723 pounds of ground beef products on Friday, because the beef has been contaminated with a drug-resistant strain of salmonella. This is the second beef recall for Beef Packers, Inc. this year. The ground beef in question was sent to stores in Arizona and New Mexico.
The Arizona Department of Health Services has reported two illnesses linked to the Beef Packers, Inc. plant from September 23.
The beef was "repackaged into consumer-size packages and sold under different retail brand names," according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Safeway groceries stores announced that the beef recall was sold at its stores in Arizona and one store in Gallup, New Mexico. A Safeway spokesman said “the recalled product is no longer in stores and urged customers to check all ground beef in their freezers and discard any with "sell by" dates of September 28 through October 11, 2009,” USA Today reported. The beef recall includes: fresh ground beef, beef patties, meat balls and stuffed peppers.
In August, Beef Packers, Inc. recalled ground beef contaminated with the same salmonella strain after 39 illnesses were reported.
Source: USA Today
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This company knowingly took bad beef and repackaged it to resell? The USDA should shut them down for good and have huge fines against owners!
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