- Hello Jeff - I wonder how many illegals are working
for Cargill? As you see, nowhere is the USDA to be found. This is another
recall within a year of the previous TWO recalls of 2009...one of which
was for approximately 825,769 pounds of ground beef products...and
another in 2007 of over 1 million pounds. An outrage.
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- If there is one thing that I can do for people, I hope
it will be to get them to STOP EATING MEAT. There is simply no question
that eating MEAT = DEATH...usually much sooner than would otherwise occur...via
a panorama of meat-encouraged and caused diseases.
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- I hate everything about meat from the corporation, inhuman
and inhumane factory-farming and warehousing of animals...to cooking and
eating it. I don't know how people can eat animals, I just don't
understand it.
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- I hope we can convince more people that eating this meat
is incredibly UNHEALTHY... it is a dirty, deadly 'food' source. I am
also against the use of fur, leather and suede. We should not use
animals in such manner. There are so many synthetic fabrics now which
are lighter yet warmer that using animal hide is obsolete.
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- Now, back to Cargill. What is going on in their
business to cause these outbreaks...Salmonella and now E Coli 026? -
Patricia Doyle, PhD
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- Company Recalls Ground Beef After E Coli Reports
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- CNN.com
- 8-28-10
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- Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. has recalled about 8500
pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Sat 28 Aug 2010.
The move came after 3 people, 2 in Maine and 1 in New York,
were identified as becoming ill from a strain of _E. coli_,
the government said.
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- None of the 3 required hospitalization, said Cargill
Inc. spokesman Mike Martin.
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- The USDA says it believes certain BJ's Wholesale Club
stores in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Virginia received the products.
The recalled ground beef was shipped on 11 Jun 2010 to distribution
centers, where it was repackaged into consumer-size packages
and sold under different retail brand names. The USDA did not
identify the brands.
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- The recalled beef bears the USDA establishment number
"EST. 9400," a product code of "W69032"
and a "use/freeze by" date of 1 Jul 2010.
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- The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Services, which
said it became aware of the problem on 5 Aug 2010, "determined
that there is an association between the ground beef products
subject to recall and the cluster of illnesses in the states
of Maine and New York."
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- Saturday's statement identified the strain as _E. coli_
026, which can cause bloody diarrhea, dehydration and, in severe
cases, kidney failure.
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- The government "strongly encourages consumers to
check their freezers and immediately discard any product subject
to this recall."
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- The government lists the recall as Class 1, meaning "there
is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will
cause serious, adverse health consequences or death."
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- http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/28/beef.recall/?hpt=T1
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- Food Safety Advocate Has Petitioned USDA
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- FoodPoisonJournal.com
- 8-31-10
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- Seattle, WA -- The recent outbreak of E. coli O26 linked
to three illnesses and the recall of four tons of ground beef products
produced by Cargill Meat Solutions is the precise reason these pathogen
needs to be monitored, says Seattle food safety attorney, Bill Marler.
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- "It took a massive outbreak in 1993 for the USDA
and beef industry to accept E. coli O157:H7 as an 'adulterant,' which means
that it is actively tested for in our food supply. Its presence in beef
halts distribution and triggers a recall," said Bill Marler. "The
USDA and beef industry know well that there are at least six additional
strains of shiga-toxin producing E. coli: O45, O111, O121, O145, O103 and
O26 that are highly dangerous to humans and should not exist in food."
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- Marler has been working since 2007 to get the additional
E. coli strains added as adulterants, culminating in a $500,000 study to
determine the prevalence of these toxins in the commercial beef supply.
The study found these pathogens in nearly 1% of the tests. His firm,
Marler Clark, in October 2009 filed a petition to the USDA requesting the
change in USDA policy. It is estimated by the CDC that the six unregulated
strains of E. coli sicken over 30,000 people a year and kills dozens.
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- "The food safety community has been extremely frustrated
with the lack of action from the USDA and the beef industry," continued
Marler. "I'm sure the families of the people affected in this most
recent outbreak will be as outraged as I am that these pathogens, which
can severely sicken and even kill, are allowed into the food supply unregulated."
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- Cargill has now recalled 8,500 pounds of ground beef
products due to E. coli O26; three are sick in Maine and New York. In
August 2008, an outbreak of E. coli O111 at an Oklahoma restaurant sickened
300 and killed one. A May 2010 outbreak of E. coli O145 in lettuce sickened
26.
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- ABOUT BILL MARLER: An accomplished personal injury lawyer
and national expert in foodborne illness litigation, William 'Bill' Marler
has been a major force in food safety policy in the United States and abroad.
He and his partners at Marler Clark have represented thousands of individuals
in claims against food companies whose contaminated products have caused
serious injury and death. His advocacy for better food regulation has
led to invitations to address local, national, and international gatherings
on food safety, including testimony to the US Congress Committee on Energy
and Commerce. Marler Clark is the nation's foremost law firm representing
victims of foodborne illness.
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- Contact Mary Siceloff at msiceloff@marlerclark.com or
(206) 719-4705. For further information visit www.marlerclark.com and www.marlerblog.com.
- Tags: Food Policy & Regulation
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- http://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/2010/08/articles/food-policy-regulation/bill-
marler-e-coli-o26-outbreak-and-recall-illustrate-urgent-need-for-change/
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
message board at:http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also
my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai
sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health
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