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Cafe-aholics Posts: 8200 07/03/08 06:40:02 Wine is so fine!	Tags : None Kroger expands ground beef recall By TERRY KINNEY, Associated Press WriterWed Jul 2, 6:10 PM ET The Kroger Co. expanded its voluntary recall of some ground beef products beyond stores in Michigan and parts of Ohio to its stores in more than 20 states on Wednesday. The nation's biggest traditional grocer also urged customers to check the ground beef in their refrigerators and freezers for the date by which the product must be sold. Meat obtained from one of Kroger's suppliers, Nebraska Beef Ltd., has been linked to illness reported in Michigan and Ohio between May 31 and June 8 caused by the E. coli bacteria. Nebraska Beef has recalled from wholesalers and other processing companies nearly 532,000 pounds of ground beef produced on five dates between May 16 and June 24. Kroger said Wednesday that as a precaution it had removed ground beef supplied by Nebraska Beef from its stores, and is expanding the recall to its stores in more than 20 states. "Ground beef in stores today comes from other suppliers not involved in the recall," Kroger spokeswoman Meghan Glynn said Wednesday. The Cincinnati-based company advised customers to look for "sell buy" dates from mid-May through early July on most ground beef products they have previously purchased from its stores and return them. Kroger initiated the recall June 25 for Kroger stores in Michigan and in central and northern Ohio. The expanded recall includes ground beef sold at Fred Meyer, QFC, Ralphs, Smith's, Baker's, King Soopers, City Markets, Hilander, Owen's, Pay Less and Scott's in more than 20 states as well. In some stores, the recall includes products in Styrofoam tray packages wrapped in clear cellophane or purchased from an in-store service counter. It does not include ground beef sold in sealed tubes in one, three or five-pound packages and frozen ground beef patties sold in the frozen food section of its stores. Kroger is notifying customers about the expanded recall by placing signs in stores in meat departments. It also is using its register receipt notification system. Symptoms of E. coli infection can include severe stomach cramps, diarrhea, vomiting and fever. Most people recover within 5 to 7 days. Health officials urge people to thoroughly cook hamburger and, if possible, use a digital thermometer to make sure meat has been heated to at least 160 degrees. They also recommend that people wash their hands with warm water and soap for at least 20 seconds before and after handling food. ___ Consumers who have questions about the recall may contact Kroger toll-free at (800) 632-6900 or online at http://www.kroger.com/recalls. ___ On the Net: USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service: http://www.fsis.usda.gov U.S. Centers for Disease Control E. coli site: http://cdc.gov/ecoli Wine Cafe Mocha Latte
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Cafe-aholics Posts: 8200 07/03/08 06:42:41 Wine is so fine!	I understand that when you are mass producing quanities of food, you will have problems. But doesn't anyone else see this as odd? I mean, in the recent few years, we have had recalls of just about everything. I don't remember it being like this in years past. Really, I don't. Personally, I think those who ARE getting sick probably do not wash their hands before preparing food at home. Wine Cafe Mocha Latte
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Cafe Staff Moderators Cafe-aholics Posts: 1843 07/03/08 09:11:42 Eta bit a pie?	Yumyum! The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. The Act arose due to public education and exposées from authors such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams, social activist Florence Kelley, researcher Harvey W. Wiley, and President Theodore Roosevelt. Though the Pure Food and Drug Act was initially concerned with making sure products were labeled correctly (habit forming cocaine-based drugs were not illegal so long as they were labeled correctly), the labeling requirement gave way to efforts to outlaw certain products that were not safe, followed by efforts to outlaw products which were safe but not efficacious. Ironically, Coca-Cola Company's earlier advertising behind the Act was rewarded by an attempt to outlaw Coca-Cola in 1909 because of its excessive caffeine content as well as its cocaine content, albeit minuscule. In the case United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola, the judge found that Coca-Cola had a right to use caffeine as it saw fit, although excessive litigation costs caused Coca-Cola to settle out of court with the United States Government. The caffeine amount was reduced. The 1906 Act paved the way for the eventual creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is generally considered to be that agency's founding date. The law itself was largely replaced by the much more comprehensive Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938. [edit] See also Biologics Control Act, a 1902 act that dealt with drug purity The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel that generated concern over adulterated meat Food safety Meat Inspection Act Quackery [edit]
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