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[spaky]

Company issues 2nd recall for tainted beef - USATODAY.com
Sorry I can't post the URL.

For the second time this year a Fresno beef company, Beef Packers Inc, has issued a recall on salmonella tainted beef. I almost think that the China ejuice could be safer than the stuff made here. Hopefully suppliers here take more precautions than the multi-million/billion dollar companies do. Does anyone think that there will be severe punishments handed out over this? At least in China if a product sickens or kills the people it is sold to they can kill them back.

They also didn't make them recall the beef sent to schools for lunches. Apparently the FDA doesn't care about children if a large company is involved. Just don't piss them off and try to sell deliciously flavored ejuice. That's marketing to children. That's bad. However maybe infect kids with salmonella, who cares. Atleast it isn't nicotine.

 

[Lyndale]

The Chinese official that was executed because of the malamine tainted formula was executed because he knowingly allowed the tainted product to be sold. He took bribes to allow the product to market, despite knowing the health risk it posed to infants. It wasn't a simple mistake, it can be argued that it was tantamount to murder.

I also find it hard to believe that meat from the contaminated batch went to schools and is not subject to recall. Evidence?

As for not buying US goods: Because one company seems to have a hygiene problem we should quit supporting all US businesses? And because beef from a major agri-biz player is bad, that means that my juice bought from a small business in the US that hand mixes their wares is suspect? I'm sorry, I'm don't have the muscle to make such a logical leap.

 

[spaky]

I'm not trying to say not to buy from US companies. It's just that there are a lot of people that are concerned about buying ejuice from Chinese companies. I feel more comfortable buying juice made here, but I just find it outrageous that the same company has put out Salmonella tainted beef twice this year. The worst part is I'm sure there will be essentially no consequences for this company. The worst I see happening is a small fine.

 

[spaky]

For the second time this year, a Fresno beef company is recalling thousands of pounds of ground beef contaminated with a drug-resistant strain of salmonella.
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 US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Safeway announced that the recall affects ground beef sold at its stores in Arizona and one outlet in Gallup, N.M. A Safeway spokesman said the recalled product is no longer in stores and urged customers to check all ground beef in their freezers and discard any with "sell by" dates of Sept. 28 through Oct. 11. Recalled products include fresh ground beef, beef patties, meat balls and stuffed peppers.
In August, Beef Packers recalled almost 826,000 pounds of ground beef contaminated with salmonella Newport, the same strain that prompted the current recall. At least 39 people were sickened in the weeks before the summer recall, which included orders produced at the plant in June.
Salmonella Newport infections can be life-threatening, especially to young children, the elderly and people with weak immune systems. Symptoms include ........, fever, cramps and vomiting. Because this strain is resistant to antibiotics, the risk of hospitalization is increased.
A USA TODAY investigation published last week raised questions about whether orders the company made for the National School Lunch Program also should have been included in the summer recall. Although the orders made for schools tested negative for salmonella, food-safety experts and lawmakers say the beef produced for schools should have been rejected by the government. Instead, it was sent to schools.
Beef Packers has been a major supplier to the school lunch program. Since July, however, it has bid on no contracts and produced no ground beef for schools, Cargill spokesman Mark Klein says. It has been suspended from the school lunch program three times, twice for repeatedly failing to produce ground beef that was free of salmonella, USA TODAY found.
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[ShadowWulf]

If you haven't seen it yed i would strongly recommend watching the documentary Food, INC.

Food, Inc. (2008)

Its NOT about veggies, hippys or any other such agendas. Its just a straight look at what the food industry IS, where it stands today, how and WHO runs it, and the US policy concerning food safety. The salmonila outbreaks are actually covered ind detail as well as explanations of why there's so many in this country.