The United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has posted a list of retail facilities that received boneless beef trim products imported from Canada that were recalled for possible E. coli 0157:H7 contamination. Beef trim is used to make ground beef and ground beef products. The stores that received this product used it to make their own brands of ground beef and products using ground beef.
Nationwide, the chains that received the recalled product are Albertson’s, Food4Less, FoodsCo., Jay C, Kroger, Safeway, Sam’s Club, and Walmart. The states that received the recalled product include Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, and Puerto Rico. If you purchased beef products from these stores in these states, check with the retailer to see if it was part of this recall.
And check through the long list of stores that received the trim carefully. So far, no illnesses have been linked to the recalled items, although there is a small outbreak of E. coli cases in Canada that are linked to mechanically tenderized steaks produced by XL Foods.
