PORTLAND, Maine — A total of 19 people from seven states have become sick from salmonella linked to ground beef sold by Hannaford supermarket.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday most of the victims indicated they bought the beef between Oct. 12 and Dec. 10.
The Scarborough-based Hannaford supermarket chain announced on Dec. 15 that it was recalling ground beef with a sell-by date of Dec. 17 or earlier.
The CDC says the recalled beef may still be in consumers’ homes. The company says customers should return or dispose of ground beef with the Dec. 17 or earlier sell-by dates.
In addition to Maine, Hannaford has stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont.
So far 19 people in those states and Kentucky and Hawaii have become sick.
Do you get double your money back?
Yes
Well…I guess having the runs is worth it then.
Ummm, you only get your money back if you return the product. See, that way, you didn’t eat it and therefore: NO RUNS! My bad for assuming people reading this article would understand how that works.
I’ve been there and done that when it comes to salmonella and it is way worse than just having the runs. I could have died and would not have cared if I did.
Better wash your hands after picking your nose from now on…
can’taford seems to be lacking in quality lately!
Well, with no real competition, why should they bother with quality?
“with no real competition”
Indeed…the product of our glorious government…YEAH State Capitalism!
No competition? Seriously? Never heard of Shaws? How about your local markets and producers?
Frankly, with all I’ve been hearing about ground anything, I’m staying away from it for now.
MeModerate: I suppose you’ve never compared prices between Shaw’s and Cant’afford? Alas, Cant’afford is lower on most prices without the gimmick of a “Big Brother” card in order to get the “sale” price.
Three times a year, I drive my mother down to Portsmouth to shop at MarketBasket. We save so much that it more than offsets the cost of fuel, tolls, and a meal out on the trip. Good thing we don’t take anyone else ’cause there’d be no room for them when we’re done. Now if MB were to come to Maine, then Cant’afford would have competition. Cant’afford pulled out of some NH markets rather than try and compete with MB.
I love Market Basket. I always try stock up when I go to my sisters in Boston.
Doug Brown would be so upset on how Hannaford has run these stores….
Boy that’s way more than were hurt on the ski lift accident at Sugarloaf last year. I guess before someone at Hannaford criticizes Sugarloaf they should make sure everything is in order in their own house.
Does anyone else need another reason to GO VEGAN !! ??
eating REAL food is worth a case of the trots now and then.
and end up with listeria from cantaloupes or salmonella from lettuce or e-coli from peanut butter—had this beef been well done—there would have been no problem.
No problems except a plugged up colon is all…..get cramps either way…
Vegan…vegan…isn’t that Native American for “Poor Hunter”?
When You go vegan, we will scrape you up off of the sidewalk…..after you lose your teeth and hair and get man-boobs….
Taking that long to recall salmonella laced beef is way too long. By the time CDC does anything, most of the bad food has been eaten. Get the inspectors to work quickly and then act quickly.
The CDC says they can’t pin point where its coming from, so was it Hannaford’s or some other chain????? Hannanford’s is a easy target.
The point is that the CDC is trying to recall beef that began to sicken people in October. Should it take until January to begin the recall. The sources can be traced, government agencies are accustomed to dragging their feet.
So your point is what??? The CDC is still not sure. Was 73% 80% 85% or 90% hamburg. So if they cannot pinpoint it by now where is the problem.We are talking 4 months nothing is resolved. So did CDC jump the gun on Hannaford”s and put the blame on the wrong chain???
That recall is a little lax if discarding the contaminated burger is an option. Most recalls mean return the product. How will they know they have accounted for everything. With the details in inventory control, they should be able to account for all sales by advising consumers to return the product. I guess that is why the notice should come from CDC/Hannaford and not the BDN.
That recall was announced weeks ago. I don’t know why the BDN is presenting the story as new.
Have they even proven that the ground burger had come from Hannaford’s or they assume it did.Was it 73% /80 %/ 85 %/or 90% hamburger ground beef. From what I read they can not pin point it so it could have from another chain besides Hannaford’s. If you buy hamburger from Shaw’s it taste like dry out old cardboard that was processed from some over state and shipped in. I think I will stop at Shaw’s tonight and pick up some Hotdogs and cardboard and rolls for dinner tonight not..I will take my chances with Hannaford’s hamburger.
Avoid this problem by not buying meat in the grocery stores. All over this state there are places to buy grass fed beef that doesn’t harbor these bad bugs. Buy local and support your Maine farmer. When you buy in the grocery store you support the CAFOs from out west.
Maybe FDA could have caught this outbreak if they weren’t busy harassing Farmer Brown for selling a few quarts of milk to his neighbors.
Good comment….and while at it, why not pull Splenda off the market ?? Only one molecule away from bleach….but, that is the FDA for you….big dummies…
More people have gotten sick from Hannafords USDA “guaranteed safe” hamburg than will ever get sick from Farmer Brown’s cow.
I think the agricultural dept people should pay more attention to how the meat that is in our supermarkets is processed than they have to the Blue Hill cow man.
His products haven’t made anyone sick!
Buy meat locally, from someone you know and trust, instead of the trash the commercial processors turn out every day, that is sold for “fresh meat” in your local supermarkets.
I don’t think that’s just about the cow- it’s about where the meat gets ground, right? I’m all for grinding meat at home for those who have the resources to do it. If everyone could buy meat locally and process, portion, and trim it themselves I think that would be awesome and their guts and taste buds would both be very grateful. It wouldn’t eliminate food borne illness but it would sure reduce it.
Alternatively the FDA could require meat suppliers to irradiate all their meat before selling it, and in principle I’d support that, but it would cause the same issue as milk pasteurization for small local farmers, and I’ve now seen how contentious that is. If we had a big pile of money I’d say the state should support a program assisting farmers in co-ops for that type of equipment. Maybe put it in the grange halls and make the death metal concerts book venues elsewhere (at least that’s what they’re used for in Midcoast). :)
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Very easy to point a direct finger at Hannaford and say it
was all their fault! Hannaford initiated the VOLUNTARY recall because believe
it or not the company does care about their customers! Given the fact that 19
people from HAWAII to MAINE have a certain strain of salmonella and at some
point within two to three months shopped at Hannaford, it’s convenient to
assume that it’s their fault. I’m sure if they were questioned about all their
eating habits, a dozen or more links could have been found amongst these
people!!
No one wants to mention, however, the hundreds
of people who saw this as an opportunity to return their hamburg, no matter
what the date purchased, for Hannaford’s double-your-money-back policy. This
company lost millions of dollars from this recall, but no one wants to give
them credit for their quick response to the allegations.
There is no provenance ….no real history,the product is a conglomerate of stock, basically untraceable…….Eat Local….makes sense.
This “self policing” of the slaughter houses is working out great.
Plant Based Diet
Sounds like to me that this place needed to change their supplier and didn’t. I had always purchased my beef from them, but as a mother I will no longer purchase this kind of meat from anyone who is in the business of just plain not caring. Tells me a lot about their place in our society and why we are were we are now with all of this. No “Graves” meat for my family anymore.