San Jose Valley Veal, a Santa Clara, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 1,260 pounds of veal trimmings that may be contaminated with E. Coli O157:H7.
Glenn’s Market and Catering, a Watertown, WI establishment, is recalling approximately 2,532 pounds of raw ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The lawsuit, filed by the Marler Clark law firm on behalf of the family of Robert Danell, blames the companies for the sale of “unreasonably dangerous” food that led to Danell’s death in 2010.
Life Technologies Corp. has received a Letter of No Objection from the USDA-FSIS for its RapidFinder STEC (Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli) Detection system.
It has been over a year since the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) declared six non-O157 STECs as adulterants on raw non-intact beef, and almost five months since the agency started testing beef trimmings for these pathogens.
Main Street Quality Meats, a Salt Lake City, Utah establishment, is recalling approximately 2,310 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7
. Doug O’Halloran, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401, said there is a “desperate need” for an improved culture of food safety at the plant.
In conducting standard recall effectiveness checks of U.S. domestic establishments receiving beef from XL Foods, Inc. (Canadian Establishment 038), the USDA discovered that whole muscle beef cuts prduced on the same production dates as beef subject to recall in Canada were being used to produce raw ground products.
This allows companies to use the NeoSEEK system to comply with the USDA’s recently implemented regulation that requires the testing of raw beef trim for six new STEC serogroups, in addition to the previously regulated STEC, E. coli O157:H7.
