Recall on Ground Beef Affects Eastern States-Could Your State Be One?

The latest recall on ground beef, announced yesterday, affects Eastern states and your state could be one of them. 

Here we go again friends.  Eggs, deli meat and now ground beef. At least we know our folks at the FSIS are earning their paychecks this month!

Approximately, 8,500 pounds of ground beef products was recalled by Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. because of contamination with E.coli 026.

 Three illnesses related to the tainted meat have been reported; 2 in Maine and 1 in New York.

The recall is considered a Class 1 which means “there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.”

The recalled ground beef contains the USDA establishment number “EST.9400,” an identifying product code of “W69032″ and a “use/freeze by” date of July 1. The USDA says certain BJ’s Wholesale Club stores in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Virginia received the products this summer.

Although the “use by date” is July 1, officials are urging us to check our freezers to be sure we are not storing any of the tainted beef. The meat was sent out on June 11 to distribution centers where it was repackaged and sold under different retail brand names. The FSIS will release those brand names as soon as they are available.

Symptoms of the E.coli 026 bacterium are bloody diarrhea, dehydration and in serve cases, kidney failure.

For more information regarding  this recall on ground beef which affects the eastern states, call the Cargill consumer line at 800-788-4953.