Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Some 390 tons of U.S. ground beef recalled
Some 390 tons of ground beef produced by a California meat packer, some of it nearly two years ago, is being recalled for fear of potentially deadly E. coli bacterium tainting, U.S. officials said on Monday. The beef was produced by Huntington Meat Packing Inc of Montebello, California, and shipped mainly to California outlets, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food safety arm said. An initial problem, in ground beef shipped by the plant from January 5 to January 15, was discovered during a regular safety check, the Food Safety and Inspection Service said. It said it had received no reports of illnesses associated with consumption of the recalled products. During a follow-up review of the company's records, government inspectors determined additional products produced and shipped in 2008 to be of concern because they may have been contaminated with E.coli, the service said in a notice on its web site...read more
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Ed is a nice person and interested in how the west really worked. But, he really did't have a clue as to how the job was done. He wanted to view how cattle were driven into a wilderness area and asked me to help him see this. When I told him it would involve at least a week camped out in the wilderness and much horse back travel he said he just didn't have the time to do that. I guess he was more interested in a windshield survey.
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