More than 28,000 pounds of ground beef recalled in seven states over E. coli concerns

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

More than 28,000 pounds of ground beef products are being recalled in seven states due to possible E. coli contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) announced.

Oregon-based Interstate Meat Dist. Inc decided to pull approximately 28,356 pounds of products produced on Dec. 20 after a retail package of ground beef was purchased and submitted to a third-party laboratory for microbiological analysis and tested positive for E. coli.

“FSIS conducted an assessment of the third-party laboratory’s accreditation and methodologies and determined the results were actionable,” the agency said.

The raw, ground beef items were sold by Albertsons, Kroger, Walmart and WinCo under store brand labels and were shipped to retail locations in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. The products subject to recall bear the establishment number “EST.965” inside the USDA mark of inspection or printed next to the time stamp and use or freeze by date.

Read more: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/588794-more-than-28000-pounds-of-ground-beef-recalled-in-seven-states

[NullTuples]

1. For perspective: 2020 total USA production was about 28,000,000,000 pounds vs the 28,000 recalled.

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Still, please be careful and check that packaging!

[getagrip_already]

2. 28 Billion pounds?

HooZaaahhhhh. That's a whole lot of moo.

[NullTuples]

3. And methane is 100x worse for global warming than CO2

That 28 billion pounds is just the meat product. Think of how much the total cow mass is, then extrapolate out to how much methane they produce. It's pretty impressive.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

4. That is why we need to stop eating beef right there.

All meat really, but beef should be the low hanging fruit to ban by now. If not ban, tax it high.

[Sapient Donkey]

5. What percentage of the country would support that?

If they don't support that, then what?

[OneCrazyDiamond]

8. Before

or after the poles have no ice, and the equator is uninhabitable?

[Sapient Donkey]

10. Today.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

17. Today?

Only those who want a habitable planet for the future.

[Sapient Donkey]

28. You didn't answer my questions

Do you believe there is a political way to achieve that?

[OneCrazyDiamond]

29. Not in the USA.

Global warming is bigger then the USA.

[Kaleva]

35. Which is highly unlikely to happen

So people stopping eating beef will accomplish nothing.

Climate change is here. People don't want to accept that.

[NurseJackie]

7. Ridiculous.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

9. K

Keep eating beef then. I am sure it will be fine.

[NurseJackie]

11. My chances of dying in a car accident are 300 times greater than dying from E-coli.

Yet, I still continue to drive too.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

16. Not e coli in meat

Global warming is the existential threat and more beef is in the wrong direction

People get E Coli from Salads too.

[NurseJackie]

20. Are those goalposts heavy?

This thread is about beef safety. And so were my comments and stats.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

21. We tax lots of things to encourage

People to do the right thing.

The methane emissions from beef post is what I replied to. That is why we should stop being a planet of cows.

And back at you

Stay safe.

[NurseJackie]

22. Okay.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Even Mondale carried one state, which is one more than the party that banned beef would win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale

[marybourg]

14. I stopped eating romaine lettuce and fresh spinach, even tho I love

them. The beef gets cooked; the lettuce doesn’t. More people have been sickened by contaminated produce than by contaminated beef.

[NurseJackie]

15. Sensible!

[NullTuples]

23. I wonder how many people get mad cow disease from a nice leafy salad?

[marybourg]

25. I don't know. How many people get mad cow

last year from eating beef? How many people died last year from e. coli and other pathogens in greens?

[NullTuples]

26. One person. Back in 2003, I believe.

I do agree with you btw about currently dangerous produce farming practices. Even worse is that recalls of known tainted produce must be "negotiated" between so-called regulatory agencies and the farm corporations. I noticed pre-COVID that these negotiations often take as long as the amount of time it takes suspected tainted fresh produce to leave the supply chain. Only rarely do they then result in active recalls, or when it's a packaged, semi-processed product.

[OverBurn]

31. I love my steaks and burgers. I won't be stopping anytime soon.

What about the millions of buffalo that use to live on the plains before white men moved here? I doubt there are more cows now than there were buffalo then.

I don't buy that cows are a major problem. The millions of barrels of oil we burn every day, of course that's a big problem. Cows, I don't buy it.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

33. Eat meat.

But look into what the IPCC or the EPA has to say about the subject. The impacts are not just from methane, and it's not just from cows.

Yes burning oil should have already stopped. Former Vice President Gore thrusted this to our attention too long ago. It is tragic we still haven't learned.

I wish Manchin would see the truth. President Biden is ready to lead the world on climate change action, and support from our side should be a given.

[Igel]

18. It's a much worse greenhouse gas.

It also has a much shorter atmospheric half-life.

Not sure how it compares per kg in the atmosphere over time.

[truthisfreedom]

6. Jeepers! 85 pounds per person?

That’s a quarter pound daily… I’m not eating my share! I eat about a quarter pound of beef per week, at most. I’m a chicken and pork person, if any meat at all.

[NullTuples]

12. Heh - I haven't checked so I'm guessing some of it is exported?

Then again, have you ever been to Texas? Last time I was there - admittedly many years ago - cattle was King.

[Igel]

19. We export some.

We also import some.

I'm not sure what the numbers mean. Think of all the tallowate in soap. Tallow is cow (just like solyent green is people), chuck in some lye and you get tallowate and Irish Spring or whatever. Then there's blood and bone meal used as fertilizer. And I just fed my miscreant felines beef-based cat food.

[FakeNoose]

24. K&R take note in these states: AZ, CA, NV, OR, UT, WA and WY

[not fooled]

27. Just as the puke stooge scrotus members are ready to cripple the ability of the Federal government

to regulate including food safety. That'll go well .

[roody]

30. So glad to be a vegetarian!

[MFM008]

32. All those animals

Killed for no reason.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

34. +1