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Nebraska Beef, Ltd., is recalling about 531,700 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with the E. coli suspected as the cause of at least 38 confirmed illnesses in Michigan and Ohio, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Legal counsel for the Omaha-based company and Kroger were not immediately available for comment today about the announcement, which was made late last night.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has labeled the Nebraska Beef recall a Class I Recall, which means the situation carries a high health risk.
The contaminated beef in Kroger stores in Michigan and Ohio had sell-by dates of May 21 to June 8. All the product on store shelves has been pulled by authorities are concerned about beef that may have been put in freezers. Anyone who has Kroger ground beef product with those sell-by dates should take it to their grocer for refund or at least dispose of the product immediately.
In addition to Michigan and Ohio, Nebraska Beef reported some of the contaminated products were distributed to Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania. Additional beef products were sent to Colorado and Texas for further processing. It was not immediately clear whether the beef with the suspected contamination was sold in other stores in these newly identified states.
More reported cases are expected to follow, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that for every reported E. coli incident, 20 go unreported.
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