Cargill Beef Recalled Again, This Time For Salmonella

11:25 am EST December 7th, 2009 | News | 1 Comment

cargillYour food is not as safe as it should be.

Beef Packers Inc., owned by Cargill, announced the recall Friday. It covers 22,723 pounds of ground beef products that were sent to stores in Arizona and New Mexico.

The Arizona Department of Health Services has linked two illnesses to the ground beef, made at the Beef Packers plant on Sept. 23. The beef was ‘repackaged into consumer-size packages and sold under different retail brand names,’ according to a news release issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.

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In 1995 Cargill announced the “End of E. coli” in the pages of the New York Times. Now, 12 years later it has recalled nearly 2,000,000 pounds of hamburger (that is nearly enough to give every New Yorker a quarter pounder) in October and November recalls.

Despite Food Scares, FDA Cuts Inspections

Between 2003 and 2006, FDA food safety inspections dropped 47 percent, according to a database analysis of federal records by The Associated Press.

Thanks again, President Bush.

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One Response to “Cargill Beef Recalled Again, This Time For Salmonella”

  1. jr says:
    December 7, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    We shouldn’t have to play Russian Roulette when we go to the grocery store because of the agriculture lobby. This is another reason for public financing of political campaigns