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Beef Recall Expands to 5.3M Pounds

Nebraska Beef cited for unsanitary conditions by feds

By the Associated Press

Posted Jul 3, 2008 7:00 PM CDT

(AP) – Nebraska Beef is expanding a recall to include all 5.3 million pounds of meat it produced for ground beef between May 16 and June 26. Federal investigators have linked the company's products to an outbreak of E. coli illnesses affecting 40 people in Michigan... Read full story »

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