Mechanical tenderizers linked to tainted beef
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- Margaret Lamkin doesnt visit her grandchildren much anymore. She never flies. She avoids wearing dresses. And she worries about infections and odors. Three years ago, at age 87,...
View ArticleBig Beef: Beefs raw edges
SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- Margaret Lamkin doesnt visit her grandchildren much anymore. She never flies. She avoids wearing dresses. And she worries about infections and odors. Three years ago, at age 87,...
View ArticleBig Beef: Beefs raw edges
The Kansas City Star SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Margaret Lamkin doesnt visit her grandchildren much anymore. She never flies. She avoids wearing dresses. And she worries about infections and odors. Three...
View Article‘Big Beef’ Runs Risk of Bacterial Contamination with Mechanical Tenderizers
A year-long investigative report by the Kansas City Star illuminates the problem with beef that is mechanically tenderized. The news media outlet examined four of the so-called "Big Beef" producers in...
View ArticleBeef Investigation By Kansas City Star Uncovers Serious Risks, Including...
This is the origin myth of the food safety system in the United States: The beef industry was a mess, led to awful practices by the profit motives of a few major processing companies, until...
View ArticleInfections haunt Big Beef
SIOUX CITY, Iowa Margaret Lamkin doesn’t visit her grandchildren much anymore. She never flies. She avoids wearing dresses. And she worries about infections and odors. Three years ago, at age 87,...
View ArticleThis Report May Make You Give Up Rare Steak For The Rest Of Your Life
It is often said that true steak lovers know that the meat is meant to be consumed (medium) rare. For them, this report from the Kansas City Star may be heartbreaking. Reporter Mike McGraw spent a...
View ArticleBig trouble for Big Beef: Some tenderized meat can sicken, kill
SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- Margaret Lamkin doesnt visit her grandchildren much anymore. She never flies. She avoids wearing dresses. And she worries about infections and odors. Three years ago, at age 87,...
View Article>Big News But: USDA Bans "Other" E. coli Strains
Good news, but not excellent news, today : It has agreed that, starting in March 2012, six more strains of E. coli will be considered “adulterants,” putting them in the same regulatory category as the...
View ArticleGovernment to speed tracking of E. coli in meat
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View ArticleBetter ways to monitor Canada's meat industry
The meat recall now underway, the largest in Canadian history, has put not only E. coli bacteria under the microscope but the meat inspection system as well. So far, there are 11 confirmed cases linked...
View ArticleEscherichia coli O157:H7 Frequently Asked Questions
Escherichia coli O157:H7 is an emerging cause of foodborne illness. An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 cases of infection occur in the United States each year. Infection often leads to bloody diarrhea, and...
View ArticleBan on E. Coli in Ground Beef Is to Extend to 6 More Strains
The federal government will ban the sale of ground beef tainted with six toxic strains of E. coli bacteria that are increasingly showing up as the cause of severe illness from food. Officials have been...
View ArticleUSDA to speed tracking of E. coli in meat
WASHINGTON — The government plans to speed up the process for tracking E. coli in meat, a move that will help authorities more quickly find the source of bacteria outbreaks and hasten food recalls....
View ArticleUSDA to expand E. coli ban in ground beef
The federal government will ban the sale of ground beef tainted with six toxic strains of E. coli bacteria that are increasingly showing up as the cause of severe illness from food. Officials have been...
View ArticleE. Coli Testing: USDA To Speed Up Investigations Of Deadly Bacteria In Meat
WASHINGTON -- The government plans to speed up the process for tracking E. coli in meat, a move that will help authorities more quickly find the source of bacteria outbreaks and hasten food recalls....
View ArticleGov't to speed tracking of E. coli in meat
SAM HANANEL Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — The government plans to speed up the process for tracking E. coli in meat, a move that will help authorities more quickly find the source of bacteria...
View ArticleCFIA continues to investigate E.coli issue. (CFIA - Canadian Food Inspection...
Summary of Events What prompted this voluntary recall by XL Foods Inc.? How did the recall happen? This voluntary recall initiated by the company follows positive test results for E. coli O157:H7 in...
View ArticleSafety experts want Canadians to rethink how to cook meat
Some food experts are trying to get more Canadians to cook their meat in a safer way. The warning comes after more than 1,800 products have been recalled from XL foods due to E.coli and 16 people fell...
View ArticleGov't to speed tracking of E. coli in meat to trace the source of E. coli 24...
The government plans to speed up the process for tracking E. coli in meat, a move that will help authorities more quickly find the source of bacteria outbreaks and hasten recalls of tainted food. The...
View ArticleU.S. doesn't require testing for E. coli strain that has killed 18, sickened...
The bacterium that has killed more than a dozen Europeans, sickened nearly 2,000 more and raised international alarms would be legal if it were found on meat or poultry in the United States. If the...
View ArticleUSDA to test beef for more strains of E.coli
On her 14th birthday, Kayla Boner got her driver’s permit and then went home complaining of stomach-bug symptoms that landed her in the hospital two days later. Antibiotics didn’t work. Kayla’s...
View ArticleUSDA to test beef for more strains of E. coli
On her 14th birthday, Kayla Boner got her driver's permit and then went home complaining of stomach-bug symptoms that landed her in the hospital two days later. Antibiotics didn't work. Kayla's...
View Article9 Ill from E.Coli Outbreak in Michigan Beef
, in North Branch, Michigan has recalled ground beef after nine people took sick. Five cases are confirmed as E.coli O157:NM. In June, recalled ground beef for , too. Originally, the pathogen...
View ArticleWhat you eat can kill you if you don't watch out
WE'LL START with a question: Do you care what you put in your mouth? Because if you do, you should have noticed a few things over the summer. 1. On Aug. 3, 36 million pounds of ground turkey were...
View ArticleDeadly E. coli Strains Go Undetected as Beef Sellers Fight Test
In less than two weeks in late 2007, Kayla Boner went from being a chatty, freckle-faced teenager celebrating her 14th birthday to a hospital patient on a ventilator with failing kidneys and seizures....
View ArticleUPDATE 2-Canada: new manager won't alter tainted beef plant review
* JBS assumes management of XL Foods plant, holds buy option * XL Foods-produced beef sickened 15 people * JBS had meat recall in 2009 but touts safety record * Plant shutdown holds back Canadian...
View ArticleWhen Is A Steak Not A Steak?
Have you ever noticed that the USDA recommends that steaks and roasts be cooked to 145° while ground beef should be cooked to 160°? Have you ever wondered why there is a difference? After all, beef is...
View ArticleLocal beef surges in popularity
A massive recall of beef products has consumers questioning the safety of their hamburgers and looking for alternatives. "We've sold all the grass-fed beef we can produce right through to January,"...
View ArticleConsumer death sparks beef lawsuit
The family of Robert Danell, a Minnesota man with Down syndrome who died in 2010 after eating E. coli-contaminated beef, has filed suit against three beef companies and several retailers. Danell’s...
View ArticleBeef labeling rule is caught in bureaucratic limbo
A new labeling rule that food safety advocates say could prevent illnesses and save lives appears to be mired in White House bureaucracy. The proposal by the U.S. Department of Agriculture would...
View ArticleMeat inspectors may be missing deadly contamination, audit warns
Despite numerous illnesses among consumers, federal meat inspectors fail to test steaks and other mechanically tenderized beef products for a dangerous strain of E. coli, according to a newly released...
View ArticleXL Foods E. coli recall preventable, probe finds
An independent report has concluded the largest beef recall in Canada’s history could have been prevented, finding a “weak food safety culture” and “relaxed attitude” to safety protocol at the XL...
View ArticleCFA Statement on USDA Proposal to Label Mechanically Tenderized Beef,...
(Source: CFA - Consumer Federation of America) Consumer Federation of America Applauds USDA Decision to Label Mechanically Tenderized Meat (June 6, 2013) - Consumer Federation of America today...
View ArticleNeedle-Tenderized Steaks to Require New Labels in U.S.
About a quarter of the beef sold in the U.S. is tenderized by manufacturers using needles or blades, an unlabeled treatment that regulators say contributes to contamination with E. coli and other...
View ArticleNewspaper: Beef industry using risky procedures
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. beef industry has been using practices that could put people's health at risk, including a mechanical meat tenderizing process that may increase the risk of E. coli...
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