Kroger recalls beef possibly linked to E coli outbreak

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Source: FoodConsumer (Alert)

TURSDAY June 26, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- Ohio State officials confirmed Wednesday June 25 that an E. coli-tainted beef sample purchased from a Kroger store in the central Ohio city of Gahanna is associated with an ongoing outbreak in Ohio and Michigan.

The confirmation by the Ohio departments of health and agriculture was based on genetic fingerprinting which suggests that Kroger beef may be linked to the multistate outbreak of E. coli sickening 19 people in Ohio and an unknown number of cases in Michigan.

Cincinnati-based Kroger (NYSE: KR) is a fortune 500 company operating more than 2,400 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 31 states.

The tainted beef sample was purchased from the Gahanna Kroger Marketplace. A sample from a store of the company in Fairfield County tested negative for E. coli.

FoodConsumers Alert

Read more: http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/R_ecalls_amp_A_lerts_3/062610392008_Kroger_recalls_beef_possibly_linked_to_E_coli_outbreak.shtml

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The perfect murder: A rare burger with sliced tomatoes.

[ashling]

5. Ok, out with it

are you in reality Ms. Marple, or Jessica Fletcher?
:rofl:

[tridim]

2. I'm just getting over a food bourne illness

It wasn't that bad, but it lasted a week. I lost about 4 pounds.

Is anyone else developing a minor food phobia lately? I sure am.

[flashl]

3. I am still trying to reconcile the Malt-O-Meal salmonella link to food poisoning alerts. nt

[shanti]

7. i had one a couple of weeks ago

and so did my DIL. it also lasted about a week, no appetite, etc. yes, i definitely am developing a food phobia!

[tridim]

10. That sounds familiar..

I had to force feed myself, I didn't want to eat anything. Today is the first day I've enjoyed my lunch in a week.

[depakid]

4. Mass shooting -major food recall -mass shooting -major food recall

Anyone else see a pattern here?

[sofa king]

8. Yes. These are both issues that were not so widely reported until recently.

"Recently" being the widespread availability of cable news. In fact, you can't even trust statistics and tables like this one when it comes to school shootings. That list leaves out at least two incidents from the 1970s which I am familiar with--in one of which the perpetrator was a girl with a .22 who shot up a schoolyard in Maryland and which would have been spectacular worldwide news from the 1990s on. The number of shootings per year has probably increased, since the population of the U.S. has increased by 100 million since 1968, or about 50%.

There's something else going on with salmonella, though. One strain which was a real problem was almost totally eradicated by the 1970s, but then two other strains moved in to almost double the number of reported cases over the bad old days of pre-Depression America. Still, one has to also take into account the 50% larger population.

I'd be willing to bet that the main reason we're hearing about all this crap all the time now is twofold: fear sells advertising quite well, and fear is politically expedient to the jackals who stole this country and the corporate boards which support them and deliver us the news. Perhaps we can change things.

[galledgoblin]

6. didn't this company just recall a ton of eggs for mold?

ick

[rainbow4321]

9. Yep...here in TX

And I've noticed there have been NO follow-up reports on the moldy eggs..like where were they shipped from, how were they stored, was the expiration date changed, etc..nothing, zilch. It just quietly went away.