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Beef Cheek Products Recalled

By Pritzker | Ruohonen

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today a recall by Beef Packers, Inc. of approximately 1560 pounds of beef cheek products because of E. coli O157:H7.  The Fresno, California company discovered the contamination during microbiological testing.

The products bear the following information:

• 30 pound boxes of “Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, Beef Cheek Meat, Sm Bx.”
• The boxes contain establishment number “Est. 354” and a “Packed On” date of “07/02/08”

The boxes of beef cheek were intended for further processing, so the products available in stores for consumers will most likely not contain the establishment number information. The affected products were shipped to distributors in Fresno, Modesto, Santa Rosa, and Vernon, California.

Full post as published by Food Poisoning Law Blog on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).