Restaurant Law Group

No, it’s not butt steak. It’s actually from the cheek of the steer, and it’s being recalled for possible e. coli infection.
According to the Fresno Bee, a local division of Cargill, Beef Packers, Inc., is recalling about 1,500 pounds of the meat, widely used by Hispanics in a dish called barbacoa.
Though presumably most of the [...]

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The E. coli outbreak traced to Kroger and Nebraska Beef, which had been contained to Ohio and Michigan, has recently mysteriously affected three people who live away from those states.
One case, in Kentucky, is close to the Ohio border, but the other victims — in Indiana and New York — have not gone near [...]

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Those who are inclined to believe that we can use technology to make life, or at least food, safer will take heart in the recent example discussed in the Washington Post about Sheldon Roth and his beef processing plants that are microbe-free, producing beef products that are so far beyond federal standards that they can’t [...]

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Ed Schafer
Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer has called for a regulation that would get rid of all exceptions to the downed cattle law, thereby prohibiting the slaughter of any cattle that go down after they pass pre-inspection.
Schafer is calling for the clarification of the ban, “to maintain consumer confidence in the food supply, eliminate further [...]

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JSM Meat Holdings, out of Chicago, is voluntarily recalling an unspecified amount of beef products because they may be contaminated with E. coli.
The beef was distributed for further processing to companies in eleven states. The FSIS discovered the contamination. No illnesses have been reported as yet.

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Richard Raymond, head of USDA’s Food Safety programs, speaks on the safety of the U.S. beef supply. Mostly to assure Korea that our beef is safe, but also to assure Americans.

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The USDA cited four of 18 packers that supply meat to the nation’s school-lunch program. All of the citations were for various cases of inhumane treatment of cattle, and one packer was closed temporarily.

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