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Calif. Plant Recalls Ground Beef on Salmonella Fears

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(Newser) – A California meatpacking plant has issued a recall for 800,000 pounds of ground beef it fears may be tainted with salmonella, the Los Angeles Times reports. The ground beef from Beef Packers, Inc. is sold under various retail names in California, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. The recall came after the Colorado Department of Public Health noted numerous cases of sickening among individuals suspected of eating the beef.

A stack of ground beef patties moves on a conveyor belt at a meat packing and distribution facility June 24, 2008 in San Francisco, California.
A stack of ground beef patties moves on a conveyor belt at a meat packing and distribution facility June 24, 2008 in San Francisco, California.   (Getty Images)
Carlos Vasquez monitors ground beef as it passes through a machine that makes hamburger patties at a meat packing and distribution facility June 24, 2008 in San Francisco, California.
Carlos Vasquez monitors ground beef as it passes through a machine that makes hamburger patties at a meat packing and distribution facility June 24, 2008 in San Francisco, California.   (Getty Images)
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Sonny_Crockett
Aug 6, 09 4:04 PM CDT
My burger's got to be crunchy well done... Reply
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weglad
Aug 6, 09 4:10 PM CDT
Last time this came up for discussion - around the proposed extension of the FDA's responsibilities - we had the tediously predictable barrage of reactionary comment along the lines of how it was just a commie plot to increase food prices (Corona King - remember him?) Just to get on the record: Food safety is not an unwarranted government interference in your liberty! It's about idle profiteers taking liberties with your health. Even better, support your local farmers and eat in your community! Reply
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UrUndertaker
Aug 6, 09 4:40 PM CDT
Most places do not have the luxury of eating "locally" as big agribusiness has taken that option off the table (no pun intended)....the FDA needs to tighten up, enforce the rules and increase inspectors, big business is not going to police itself and that has been proven time after time
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Reader60610265
Aug 6, 09 4:13 PM CDT
What the heck is going on ? this last few years all you here about is food recalls .Has the system deteriorated to the extent that our food sources ore no longer safe .I don't want to say more legislation is needed ,But at least the rules we have should be more strictly enforced. I sure don't remember the food industry having these kinds of problems when I was a younger man. Reply
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Reader64481089
Aug 6, 09 4:38 PM CDT
I am with you, what is going on with the FDA and all the poisons being allowed into food these days, hell by the time they have a recall you have a string of bodies 10 miles long or it was sold so many months back people can't even remember what it tasted like :( I know they (the FDA inspectors) are understaffed but that needs to be taken care of before a ton of folks come up really bad off
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