UPDATE-Meat Recall For Salmonella-Cargill Meat Solutions Corp.

UPDATE-Meat Recall For Salmonella-Cargill Meat Solutions Corp., has recalled about 8,500 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli.

So far, three people, two in Maine and one in New York, have been linked to the meat and have become ill from a strain of E. coli. None of whom have been hospitalized.

Who Is Responsible

The USDA state that,”it believes certain BJ’s Wholesale Club stores in eight states: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Virginia, could have been shipped the tainted ground beef.

The tainted ground beef was shipped June 11th, 2010, to distribution centers, where it was repackaged into consumer-size packages and sold under different retail brand names. The USDA has not yet identify the brands.

The recalled beef bears the USDA establishment number “EST. 9400,” a product code of “W69032″ and a “use/freeze by” date of July 1st, 2010.

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Services, which said it became aware of the problem on August 5, “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.”

The meat recall is infected with salmonella, which is identified as the strain as E. coli 026.

E. coli 026 can cause bloody diarrhea, dehydration and, in severe cases, kidney failure.

The USDA and CDC has issued the warning to consumers to “check their freezers and immediately discard any product subject to this recall.”

The U.S. government listed 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.”

Anyone with questions regarding the recall should contact the Cargill consumer line at (877) 788-4953.

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