THE WESTERNER

Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Warning on beef as E. coli sickens 6 Federal inspectors are warning consumers to check the ground beef in freezers because six people in Washington have been sickened by ground beef contaminated with E. coli bacteria. A federal consumer alert was issued Thursday after investigators tracked the illnesses, along with two others in Oregon, during late July and early August to a single strain of E. coli 0157: H7 bacteria in ground beef produced by Oregon-based Interstate Meats. In Washington, one child and five adults from King, Island and Clallam counties were sickened. Two of them were hospitalized but have recovered. The products subject to the alert, ordered by the U.S. Food Safety Inspection Service, were sold under the brand name, "Northwest Finest,"....

1 comment:

Kanani said...: Oh, this just makes me sick.
The LA Times had an excellent article on E-coli a few weeks ago. The company that produced bag salads had a disastrous event last year. They hired a specialist who told them, "it will always be a risk." So they changed the way they processed things, but still, I think the fear of another outbreak is always there.

And thanks for dropping by my site. I learn a lot when I visit sites like yours. My novel is in the final draft. It's basically a western sans horses and loads of little white houses that dot the Delta.; 9:47 AM