Beef product warning expanded by food inspectors (in Canada)
Source: CBC
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has expanded its health hazard warning about ground beef products from XL Foods of Alberta to more stores and provinces because of concerns about possible dangerous E. coli contamination.
Hamburgers and other ground beef products produced by Edmonton-based XL Foods are now being recalled from grocery stores in Atlantic Canada. The original warning covered some store chains in Ontario, Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
The agency hasn't said exactly how much meat is involved in the warnings or the recall.
"With the regard to the distribution and the area of coverage and the number of retailers who are providing us information on the product, it is fairly extensive," Garfield Balsom of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/09/19/cfia-expand-warning-ecoli.html
Meanwhile the US beef industry is suing a media outlet over the pink slime story. This new health warning from Canada makes that lawsuit in the US all the more frivolous.
