Hannaford Supermarkets is alerting consumers that Minnesota-based Cargill Beef is voluntarily recalling 29,339 pounds of ground beef that may contain salmonella.
The 85-percent-lean ground beef was produced at Cargill’s plant in Wyalusing, Pa., on May 25, and repackaged for sale to consumers by customers of the Maine-based grocery chain.
Cargill President John Keating said in a statement, “Foodborne illnesses are unfortunate and we are sorry for anyone who became sick from eating ground beef we may have produced.”
According to a Sunday USDA release, the agency became aware of the problem while investigating a multistate outbreak of salmonella enteritidis involving 33 patients from seven states: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Virginia and Vermont. The patients began getting sick June 6-13, and two of the patients were hospitalized.
“Salmonella infections can be life-threatening, especially to those with weak immune systems, such as infants, the elderly, and persons with HIV infection or those undergoing chemotherapy,” the USDA noted in the release. “The most common manifestations of salmonellosis are diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and fever within 12-72 hours. Additional symptoms may be chills, headache, nausea and vomiting that can last up to seven days.”
Hannaford said consumers should check their ground beef for use or sell-by dates between May 29 and June 16. Refunds will be offered for ground beef that is returned.
Last week, Hannaford warned consumers that a supplier to the grocer has issued a recall on three products due to possible contamination with listeria monocytogenes.
New Jersey-based Buona Vita Inc. has recalled three meatball products, Hannaford said, all available through the grocer’s deli department. The products are Homestyle Meatballs with Sauce, sold by the pound; Meatball Panini — cold, UPC No. 941260723096; and Meatball Panini — hot, UPC No. 94126072102.
Hannaford said last week that customers who bought any of these products should not eat them, and may return the items to Hannaford for a full refund. Products subject to the recall have been removed from the shelves at Hannaford.
According to Hannaford, the voluntary recall is part of a broader recall involving various frozen, ready-to-eat meat and poultry products produced by Buona Vita and sold to distributors nationwide.
“The problem was discovered during microbiological testing by the Ohio Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service,” the release said. “No illnesses have been reported.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control, listeriosis mostly affects older adults, pregnant women, newborns and adults with weakened immune systems. A person with listeriosis usually has fever and muscle aches, sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms, the agency said. “Almost everyone who is diagnosed with listeriosis has ‘invasive’ infection, in which the bacteria spread beyond the gastrointestinal tract,” the CDC reports.
Hannaford should rename themselves to ‘question mark and the listerians’.
Walk around all day with that bad meat…LOL
‘Mystery meat’.
The time to become informed about products with a May or June pull date would be in May or June
– not the end of July.
I don;t know about other people, but I split things up in portions sizes and freeze them and most don’t have a store tag on them, anymore. Just the date for my basic reference.
Food safety and inspection is another area the Teapublicans would deregulate if given the chance!
Obama 2012.
I do exactly as you do, dwneat-split the larger pkg. into smaller ones. I usually don’t even put the date on them. We get all our meat from Hannaford, so now I guess I’ll have to at least put the date on them and look for a better home “system” to keep track of it.
And while your wondering if you’re ingesting E.coli and listeria, don’t forget about all the hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, etc,etc that are in most commercially produced meats.
Plant based diet
Sure would make life a little easier, Dilska…except for the next recall on lettuce, peppers, etc.
Wish I could figure out a way to get fresh vegetables/fruit here in Maine from our own garden all year ’round.
Excellent point, and those contaminations are usually the result of waste runoff from agribusiness meat factories. These companies need to stop overapplying animal waste under the guise of land spreading.
Yet another reason to grind your own.
Food safety in the USA is about as safe as Barack Obama’s healthcare unaffordable act.
I would say nice segway, but we both know that it was not. In fact, it came off as a bit desperate.
I would say nice use of the word segue, but one of us knows that it was not. In fact, it came off as a bit ignorant.
So I used the spelling associated with the two wheeled vehicle. I hurried a little and used the wrong word. I actually do know the difference. How exactly did this derail my point that it was a lame attempt to bash equal access for all to health care? Or is spell check all you have? The ignorant comment was a nice touch as well. Nothing concedes a point any quicker than name calling.
Please somebody tell me why I want to buy hamburger or meatballs from Hannaford again…bring on the pink slime.
Yet anothert reason to shop at your local farmer’s market.