E .coli Found In Ground Beef

   First it was ConAgra with their Peter Pan peanut butter getting tainted with Salmonella and now we have Tyson Fresh Meats  doing a recall of some 7.6 tons on ground beef which could be contaminated with E.coli.

   The beef was processed on February 16, 2007 and shipped to four states, those being Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Utah.  Source

    Thus far it seems that no one has gotten sick from the beef which is a good thing but the outbreaks that the United States has had in the past few years is getting kind of nutty. Do we not have enough inspectors at the USDA to cover the areas that they need to take care of? The last that I heard, this sort of thing is supposed to be caught before the food that we eat is shipped from these processing plants.

 

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