Ground Beef E.coli Recall: USDA Names Stores

Food Poisoning Bulletin

May 21, 2014 by Carla Gillespie 

A partial list of stores involved in the 1.8 million pound ground beef recall linked to an E.coli outbreak that has sickened at least 11 people in four states has been published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS). It’s a small list for a big recall, but the agency is not permitted to list restaurants, only retail stores, and the list may not yet include all locations.
So far, here are the retail locations that are part of the recall. Gordon Food Service Marketplace Stores in FL, IL, IN, KY, MI, OH, PA, TN, and WI.; Surf N Turf Market in Sebring, Florida; Giorgio’s Italian Deli in Stuart, Florida;  M Sixty Six General Store in Orleans, Michigan and Buchtel Food Mart on Buchtel, Ohio.

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Confirmed E. Coli Case in Mass Prompts National Beef Recall

• By Roberto Scalese
• Boston.com Staff
• May 19, 2014 9:15 PM

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Monday confirmed that a Western Massachusetts resident has E. coli, according to MassLive. That case, along with others across the country, has prompted Wolverine Packing Company and the US Department of Agriculture to recall 1.8 million pounds of beef.

From MassLive:

The beef produced between March 31 and April 18 and distributed for use in restaurants in Ohio, Michigan, Missouri and Massachusetts. The recall notice notes that none of the beef in question was distributed to the Department of Defense, the National School Lunch Program or for catalog or internet sales.
Products that are subject to are marked with the number "EST. 2574B" and will have a production date code in the format "Packing Nos: MM DD 14" between "03 31 14" and "04 18 14."

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The recall was ordered after the Massachusetts resident, along with five Michiganders, four Ohioans and a Missourian became ill with E. coli

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Meat Products From Ontario Recalled for Lack of Inspection by USDA

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By Dan Flynn | February 22, 2014

Meat imported from Canada is being recalled for lacking full USDA inspection, the Food Safety and Inspection Service announced late Saturday.
The meat products are from the Ontario-based Santa Maria Foods Corporation. About 8,895 pounds of various meat products are included in the Class II recall with a remote possibility of adverse human health consequences.  Included in the recall are:

• 11.1-oz. “Sopressata Salami” bearing package code “2014AL30”
• 5.1-lbs. “MASTRO Milano Salami” bearing package code “2014JN17”
• 5.3-lbs. “MASTRO Calabrese Salami Hot” bearing package code “2014JL08” or “2014JN17”
• 8.4-lbs. “MASTRO Sopressata Round” bearing package code “2014JL22”
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• 2.6-lbs. “MASTRO Sopressata Salami” bearing package code “2014JL09”........

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Foster Farms Salmonella Outbreak Sickened 134 in 13 States. Costco recalls 40,000 pounds of rotisserie chicken

Food Poisoning Bulletin

February 16, 2014 by Carla Gillespie

The first of two Salmonella outbreaks linked to Foster Farms chicken during 2013 was announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) one year ago this weekend. The outbreak sickened 134 people in 13 states, 33 people were hospitalized.
Most of those sickened, 71 percent, told health investigators that they had eaten Foster Farms chicken before they developing symptoms of Salmonella poisoning which include abdominal cramps, nausea and diarrhea.  Shopper card records showed nine case patients purchased Foster Farms chicken before illness onset.

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Costco recalls 40,000 pounds of rotisserie chicken for salmonella risk

By JoNel Aleccia

A Costco wholesale store in South San Francisco, Calif., is recalling nearly 40,000 pounds of rotisserie chicken products because the food may be linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning that now has sickened more than 300 people in 20 states, federal health officials said early Saturday. 

The Costco store at 1600 El Camino Real is recalling 8,730 Kirkland Signature Foster Farms rotisserie chickens and 313 units of Kirkland Farm rotisserie chicken soup, rotisserie chicken leg quarters and rotisserie chicken salad, according to a notice issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service. The products were sold directly to consumers between Sept. 11 and Sept. 23. 

The rotisserie chickens may have been contaminated with a type of Salmonella heidelberg rarely found in the United States, FSIS officials said. The strain is linked to an ongoing food poisoning outbreak associated with three Foster Farms poultry plants in Fresno and Livingston, Calif. The USDA issued a public health alert for products from the plant on Monday, but on Thursday agreed that the facilities could remain open if the company made promised food safety fixes. 

At least 317 people in 20 states have been sickened by the outbreak since March, according to an updated notice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of the cases have been in California, where 232 people have been reported ill. It is the second outbreak of salmonella Heidelberg tied to Foster Farms in less than a year. A previous outbreak sickened 134 people in 13 states.

Some of the seven strains of salmonella detected in the outbreak are drug-resistant, which has created hard-to-treat infections in some patients. About 42 percent of victims in the outbreak have been hospitalized, twice the typical rate for salmonella infections. 

The rotisserie chicken recall is limited to the single store, Craig Wilson, Costco's vice president for food safety, told NBC News on Saturday. One cooked bird tested positive for the rare salmonella strain, Wilson said.

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8.7 million pounds of beef recalled after company processes diseased animals without federal inspection

By Associated Press Reporter
PUBLISHED: 00:10 EST, 9 February 2014 | UPDATED: 00:10 EST, 9 February 2014

A Northern California company is recalling more than 8.7 million pounds of beef products because it processed diseased animals without a full federal inspection.

That's a whole year's worth of meat processed by Petaluma-based Rancho Feeding Corp.

The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service said Saturday that without the full inspection, the recalled products are unfit for human consumption.

Tainted: Rancho Feeding Corp. is recalling more than 8.7 million pounds of beef products because it processed diseased animals without a full federal inspection

They were processed from Jan. 1, 2013, through Jan. 7, 2014, and shipped to distribution centers and retail stores in California, Florida, Illinois and Texas.

They include beef carcasses, oxtail, liver, cheeks, tripe and tongue.
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Colorado company recalls 90,000 pounds of meat after rodent discovery

Colorado Meat Company Recalls 90,000 Pounds Of Meat

December 10, 2013 7:09 AM

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DENVER (AP/CBS4) – A Windsor meat company has recalled some 90,000 pounds of various meat and poultry products that were produced under unsanitary conditions.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced the recalls Monday. Yauk’s Specialty Meats of Windsor, Colo., recalled:
— “Colorado Best Beef” brand various fresh, smoked and shelf-stable meat products.
— “James Ranch” brand jerky and summer sausage.
— “Rocky Plains Meats” brand hams, bacon, raw and smoked sausage, jerky and raw poultry.
— “John Long Farms” brand fresh and smoked pork products.
— “Horned Beef” brand jerky.
— “Mile High Hungarian Sausage” brand fresh and smoked bacon and sausage.
The products were produced between April 1, 2013, and Dec. 5, 2013 and can be identified by four-digit Julian dates ranging between 3091 and 3339. The products were sold in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
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Bagged salads suspected in multistate E coli outbreak

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Trader Joe's, Walgreens, Whole Foods named in E.Coli recall

by Associated Press

Posted on November 11, 2013 at 9:10 AM

RICHMOND, Calif. -- More than 90 tons of ready-to-eat salads and sandwiches by a California catering company are being recalled after 26 people in three states were sickened by a bacterial strain of E. coli linked to its products, federal health officials said Sunday.
Richmond-based Glass Onion Catering are recalling approximately 181,620 pounds of salads and sandwich wraps containing cooked chicken and ham, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service said.
The recall lists Walgreens, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods as companies that received the items.
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The products were produced between Sept. 23 and Nov. 6, and were shipped to distribution centers in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Texas. The Contra Costa Times reports the company supplies food to Trader Joe's, Super Fresh Goods and Delish.
Products regulated by FSIS bear the establishment number "P-34221" inside the USDA mark of inspection. FSIS products subject to recall include:
- 12 oz. packages of "delish pan pacific chop salad"
- 13.4 oz. packages of "delish California style grilled chicken salad"
- 9.9 oz. packages of "delish uncured applewood smoked ham & cheese wrap"
- 10.5 oz. packages of "delish grilled chicken caesar wrap"
- 10.9 oz. packages of "delish southwestern chicken wrap"

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Bagged salads suspected in multistate E coli outbreak

Lisa Schnirring | Staff Writer | CIDRAP News
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Nov 11, 2013
Federal and state health officials are investigating a multistate Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to prepackaged salads made by a California firm and sold in some western-state Trader Joe's stores that has so far sickened 26 people in three states.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday that public health investigators are using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and data from PulseNet, a national subtyping network to detect other infections that may be part of the outbreak. The CDC said the outbreak strain's PFGE pattern has never been seen before in PulseNet.
In addition to the CDC, groups investigating the outbreak include the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and health officials from three states reporting cases so far: California, Arizona, and Washington. So far most of the cases have been reported from California (22), with Washington reporting 3 and Arizona reporting 1.
The USDA said it started monitoring a cluster of E coli O157:H7 illnesses on Oct 29, then was notified by the FDA on Nov 6 that California health officials had reported patients who got sick after eating prepackaged salads that contained grilled chicken.
So far the investigation points to two ready-to-eat salads produced by Glass Onion Catering, based in Richmond, Calif., and sold at Trader Joe's stores as one likely source of the outbreak. More efforts are under way to determine the source of the contamination and flag other tainted products that are still in the marketplace.
Yesterday the company recalled 181,620 pounds of ready-to-eat salads and sandwich wrap products with fully-cooked chicken and ham that may be contaminated, according to a notice posted by the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The products also include food regulated by the FDA, which posted a list of recalled products and other information on the outbreak.
FSIS-regulated products include 15 different kinds of grilled chicken salads, grilled chicken wraps, plus one type of ham-and-cheese wrap. The items were produced between Sep 23 and Nov 6 and were shipped to distribution centers for retail sale in eight western states: Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington.

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